Valis

Author: Philip K Dick

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9781857983395
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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  • : October 2001
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
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  • : 24.99
  • : April 2005
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  • : English
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9781857983395

Description

It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story ' in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime, VALIS is both disorienting and eerily funny, and a joy to read.

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'It is about madness, pain, deception, death, obsessive delusory states of mind, cruelty, solitude, imprisonment, and it is a joy to read' Washington Post 'Valis is a carefully structured, profoundly thoughtful study of some crazy people who just might have touched something illimitable, something so deep-rooted in myth that it is literally unspeakable' Theodore Sturgeon Philip K. Dick was one of the greatest and most influential writers of science fiction of his generation.

Author description

SALES POINTS 'It is about madness, pain, deception, death, obsessive delusory states of mind, cruelty, solitude, imprisonment, and it is a joy to read' Washington Post 'Valis is a carefully structured, profoundly thoughtful study of some crazy people who just might have touched something illimitable, something so deep-rooted in myth that it is literally unspeakable' Theodore Sturgeon Philip K. Dick was one of the greatest and most influential writers of science fiction of his generation.