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Valis

Valis
Philip K. Dick

July 2nd, 1991







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Rating: 4.1 / 5.0 (116 votes)

Released: 1991-07-02

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Valis by Philip K. Dick

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Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; 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.

“The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation–this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years.”–Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic

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The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, “Valis” takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical.

The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity.

Book Details

Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paperback Language: English Pages: 240

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