Eye in the Sky is a science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick and originally published in 1957. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Jump to: navigation, search Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (16 December 1928 — 2 March 1982), often known by his initials PKD, and sometimes by the pen name Richard Phillips, was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Synopsis

While on a visit to the (fictional) Belmont Bevatron, eight people become stuck in a series of subtly unreal worlds. These are later revealed to be solipsistic manifestations, bringing the story in line with Dick's penchant for subjective realities. The Bevatron was a particle accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ... Jump to: navigation, search Solipsism (from the Latin ipse = self and solus = alone) is the epistemological belief that ones self is the only thing that can be known with certainty and verified (sometimes called egoism). ... In philosophy, a subject is a being which has subjective experiences or a relationship with another entity (or object). A subject is an observer and an object is a thing observed. ...