Is this the real world?: “Eye in the Sky” by Philip K. Dick.

Read some more PKD! This is one of the novels that were published in the mid to late fifites, "Eye in the Sky".

Jack Hamilton and a group of people are doing a tour of a particle accelerator when the machine goes awry. Now they find themselves in a world that is ruled by an Old Testament morality, when even a slight infraction can cause a plague of locusts.

But escaping that world is not the end. They also have to escape other worlds also, that includes a Communist dystopia and one where everything can be considered an enemy.

Another real mind bender, with of course the ever present theme of perceptions of reality, Philip's trademark. Even with some of fifties material this is very trippy! Then again, he had been writing prolifically since 1950, with much of the novels being either released later in his lifetime or posthumously after his death in 1982.

"Eye in the Sky" also goes in for some satire too, mostly on politics and religion. The various realities that the characters go through can sometimes be so absurd and ridiculous that it can raise eyebrows aplenty. A other times they can be extremely nightmarish and horrifying, resembling something right out of a bad acid trip. And all of it is balanced with the right amount of humor.

There's another fifties PKD novel in my TBR list that I haven't read just yet, and that Is "Time Out of Joint". I can be pretty sure that one is also going to be a trippy experience once I get around to it! But I'm going to put a pause on that for now as I've got the last half of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun that needs to be read!