Valis

Name: Valis
Rating: 3.611111111111111 (18 reviews)
Author: Philip Kindred Dick
ISBN: 9781407239972

by Philip Kindred Dick

3.6

(18 ratings)

VALIS Trilogy #1271 pages2001GollanczISBN 9781407239972

Fiction Science Fiction Science

About this book

Disorienting and bleakly funny work about the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity. In VALIS (an acronym for the Vast Active Living Intelligence System), a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat is suddenly given a wildly different view of reality through the beam of a pink laser. Dick spins a theological detective story (and increasingly becomes a participant himself), in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

Publication Details

Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 2001
Pages: 271
ISBN: 9781407239972
Language: en

About Philip Kindred Dick

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS. Source and more information: [Wikipedia (EN)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick)