Author: Philip K. Dick Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Religion, Fantasy, Philosophy
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ISBNs: 9780679734468 9780547572413 0679734465 0547572417 |
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The first book in Philip K. Dick's final trilogy (followed by The Divine Invasion andThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer), VALIS encapsulates many of the themes that Dick was obsessed with over the course of his career. A disorienting and bleakly funny novel,VALIS (which stands for Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser.VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Taking place in the same universe as Dick's soon-to-be-published Exegesis,VALIS is a dense novel, but one that is absolutely essential to understanding the author's off-kilter worldview. Much like Dick himself, the reader is left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and what the price is for divine inspiration.
This book is part of the "VALIS Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Divine Invasion" First published in 1981 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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