Valis

Name: Valis
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9781455840328

Author: Philip K. Dick

Series: Valis #1

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.VALIS is essential listening for any true Philip K. Dick fan, a novel that Roberto Bolaño called “more disturbing than any novel by [Carson] McCullers.” By the end, like Dick himself, you will be left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and just what the price is for divine inspiration.

About Philip K. Dick

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on November 18, 2020

I was prompted to read this after it popped up in a season 4 episode of LOST. Philip K. Dick - image from FutureConscience Horselover Fat is both the narrator and a third-person character. He is our everyman through whom we are led in a contemplation of the nature of reality, god and sanity. Was Fat......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 13, 2017

Update 5/13/17: I had to dive back into VALIS because certain tales continue to resonate with me... and this one is still one of the very most important. Who knows? Maybe I am just a crazy as PKD because I'm obsessed with the perception of reality, holographic universes, the edict of "As Above, So Be......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on November 18, 2015

VALIS: Reconciling human suffering with divine purpose Originally posted at Fantasy Literature It’s often said that “one must suffer for one’s art.” They must have been referring to Philip K. Dick. He slaved away in relative obscurity and poverty at a typewriter for decades, churning out a prodigious......more

Goodreads review by mark on August 04, 2018

I/he looked in the mirror to find the face of God. We are all created in God's image, or so we've been taught, I/he thought. But I/he saw no God there; instead there was fallibility, weakness, hypocrisy, despair, and longing. A desire and a need to fool oneself, to compartmentalize so that one p......more