Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Genre,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Dick
Author First Name:
Philip
Pages:
271
Binding:
Trade Paperback
ISBN 10:
0547572417
ISBN 13:
9780547572413
Condition:
New
Publisher:
Gollancz
Date Published:
1/1/2011
Genre:
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Description
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.
