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Galactic Pot-Healer

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In a drab, utilitarian future, such arts as ceramic repair hold little value. But humble pot-healer Joe Fernwright is wanted by the Glimmung, the ruling power of Plowman's Planet. A being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean, the Glimmung is known for its bad temper. But no one on Plowman's Planet knows whether the Glimmung is maleficent or benign—only that they have been lured there by its mysterious design.

Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian journey. Beginning as parody, it leads to questions of predetermination, and the battle between forces of good and evil.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Joe Fernwright, out-of-work pot-healer on an Earth bogged down by overpopulation and bureaucracy, is summoned by the Glimmung to participate in an epic undertaking. (Imagine a young Douglas Adams writing during a period of existential angst.) Like a Shaw play, this is essentially a dramatic essay in which characters do not speak for themselves but embody viewpoints. They are not much of a challenge for the oral interpreter. What this book does demand of the performer is a carefully controlled tone for the author's narrative voice, in which irony, flippancy and adolescent earnest-ness contend uneasily. Tom Parker accomplishes this admirably, pre-senting a flawed work in the best possible light. J.N. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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