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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. It is a fool's search for God, who turns out to be a virus, a joke, and a mental hologram transmitted from an orbiting satellite.

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.

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	Customer Reviews: Average Rating: Rating : - An important work This novel is to me one of those things that you want people to understand, you want people to see in it the same things you do. It hurts me that this thing that I love so might be considered insignificant to someone else. Such is the nature of our experiance. VALIS will expose you to many interesting ideas regarding philosophy, religion, and reality. It is not the end all be all with regard to these things, but more a good primer. I don't follow the "zaney romp" or "fools search for God" school of thought on this book at all. It is quite funny, but I find the subject matter at its heart to be very serious and compelling, as one would expect the search for God to be. Phil Dick isn't joking around here. I don't have the words to convey to you all that VALIS means to me. I guess I can only say that touched me, moved me, made me laugh, and frightened me, and does so every time I read it. I become sad whenever I finish it, knowing I'm no longer participating in Horselover Fat's quest. + See Full Customer Review

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