Valis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Valis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philip K Dick
SeriesS.F. Masterworks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 163
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781857983395
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 12 July 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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

Reviews

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times * My literary hero * Fay Weldon * For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam *