Series
Sirius Five
Philip K. Dick · 2 novels · 1969–1988
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer (1969) follows Joe Fernwright, an unemployed pot-mender on a future Earth, recruited by the alien Glimmung to help raise a sunken cathedral on the planet Sirius 5, mixing surreal comic adventure with questions about fate and the value of effort when success is never guaranteed. Dick's earlier young-adult manuscript Nick and the Glimmung, unpublished until 1988, shares the Glimmung character and other elements with it, suggesting he reworked the same creature across two very different books.
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Sirius Five at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s1
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2 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
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this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Galactic Pot-Healerdarkest · calmest
- Nick and the Glimmungbrightest · most intense