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Galactic pot-healer / Philip K. Dick

In a totalitarian future, a ceramics repairman joins a multispecies team led by a godlike entity to raise a sunken cathedral on a remote planet. The narrative explores themes of fatalism and the search for meaning in a repressive society.

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