Galactic Pot-Healer

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

A powerful and enigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel.

Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman’s Planet.
Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing—repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman’s Planet, things start to go awry. Told as only Philip K. Dick can, Galactic Pot-Healer is a wildly funny tale of aliens, gods, and ceramics.

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One of the best Dick books

Galactic Pot Healer is probably the most indirectly spiritual of Dick’s work and conveys much of the sadness and realities of day to day life in a soulless world absent work, personal value, and purpose, but then turns it into a story first of revelation and then day to day practicality. It’s me of Dick’s most approachable and gentle booms with none of the deep despair that permeates many of his novels.