โ Scribed by Philip K. Dick
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SUMMARY:
In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of Americaโs history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dickโs final years, when religious revelation, always important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme. In A Maze of Death (1970), a darkly speculative mystery that foreshadows Dickโs final novels, colonists on the planet Delmak-O try to determine the nature of the Godโor โMentufacturerโโwho plots their destiny. The late masterpiece VALIS (1981) is a novelistic reworking of โthe events of 2-3-74,โ when Dickโs life was transformed by what he believed was a mystical revelation. It is a harrowing self-portrait of a man torn between conflicting interpretations of what might be gnostic illumination or psychotic breakdown. The Divine Invasion (1981), a sequel to VALIS, is a powerful exploration of gnostic insight and its human consequences. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Dickโs last novel, is by turns theological thriller, roman ร clef, and disenchanted portrait of late 1970s California life, based loosely on the controversial career of Bishop James Pikeโa close friend and kindred spirit.
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The first book in Philip K. Dick's defining trilogy (followed by*The Divine Invasion*and*The Transmigration of Timothy Archer*),*VALIS*is a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnost
SUMMARY: In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of Americaโs history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dickโs fi
### Amazon.com Review 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, H
โDick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage.โโRoberto Bolaรฑo What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dickโs ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When a
SUMMARY: In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of Americaโs history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dickโs