Eye in the Sky

Jack Hamilton and his wife are on a guided tour of a brand-new particle accelerator when the particle beam goes off track and knocks the entire tour group from a catwalk. The group lies sprawled on the floor until EMTs revive them moments later, and all leave without any serious injuries. What the outside world doesn't realize is that for those few moments, the tour group lives out several days in increasingly bizarre fantasy worldsworlds created out of their own minds. Dick uses these fantasies to skewer typical worldviews, like one with a rigidly Old-Testament view of morality or one where absolutely everyone and everything is out to get you. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic, and it shows in Eye in the Sky, where no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take-downs. Combined with the thrills of a group of people trying to escape from a world where the rules are upside-down, it is a lesson in morality hidden inside a comedy. Would you want to live in someone else's world? Would they want to live in yours?