Philip K. Dick 
Galactic Pot-Healer 

A powerful andenigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel. Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowmans Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healingrepairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowmans Planet, things start to go awry. Told as only Philip K. Dick can, Galactic Pot-Healer is a wildly funny tale of aliens, gods, and ceramics.