Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick (1965)
Philip K. Dick’s amazing novel Dr. Bloodmoney rewards the reader with a new share in Dick’s visionary insanity.
Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson (1994)
I was disappointed by Mysterium. How can an author mess up a stew of gnosticism, quantum cosmology, political and religious satire, and good old fashioned nuclear annihilation? By substituting an empty placeholder (“mystery”) for a substantive insight or theoria, that’s how.