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- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- First published
- 1981
- Editions
- 24
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, God, Faith, Schizophrenia, Reality, American Science fiction
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- publication date
- 1981-02-00
- title
- VALIS
- first line
- Horselover Fat’s nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.
- last line
- As we had been told, originally, long ago, to do; I kept my commission.
- number of parts of this work
- 1
- epigraph
- VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasiconsciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.
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Categories
1981 American novels1981 science fiction novelsAmerican English-language novelsAmerican novels adapted into operasAmerican philosophical novelsBantam Books booksFictional creation storiesGnosticism in popular cultureMetafictional novelsMetaphysical fiction novelsNovels by Philip K. DickPostmodern novelsReligion in science fictionVisionary fiction