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It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). And with that, the fabric of reality was torn apart and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right.

It was madness, pure and simple. But what if it were true?

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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

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Over a writing career that spanned three decades, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned toward deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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Viatora

Each one is so different from the other and make for great debates- David is deeply religious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2017

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I can't even think of the proper congregation of words by which to express the brilliance of this book the way it deserves. Compared to Dick's other novels, this one is clearly a vulnerable one for him, it's deeply personal even though it doesn't seem as if it's about him, and it follows a deeply thoughtful, heartbreaking and mindblowing quest to explain what made him have a divine revelation. Dick exhausted a lot of time doing research in theology and mythology and the way it is brought up in the story is absolutely enchanting. The characters and story, beyond the mere quest, are so very well done. Each one is so different from the other and make for great debates- David is deeply religious, Kevin is a caustic cynic, Sherri survives cancer but she wants to die. Then there's the two sides of the same coin, Horselover Fat and Philip (K Dick). I'll let you think about that one, but better you follow up with the book.
I could not put this book down, I read it in a day, I even forgot to drink my coffee. Personally, I never expected such genius from Philip K Dick, well, in this manner. He's damn good at sci-fi, but this is beyond simple sci-fi. I never thought this would become my favourite novel.

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What can you say about VALIS? It is a ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2015

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What can you say about VALIS? It is a personal journey of a very different person based on childhood experiences, a possible 'walk in' or previous life and drug taking. Horse Lover Fat is the alter ego of PKD, so to have them viewed separately is interesting in itself. If there is a message to the book it is that the third eye people (stay with me now) are packing up and going home. This for those who do not study chakras is the third eye people or as there are some misunderstandings it is those according to PKD who have come from Sirus. Why? Well it is because Jesus is coming back so the world no longer need there control / input.

As PKD would say 'the empire never ended' but its time is nigh!

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Matt Jenkins

Probably Not For The Newcomer To PKD's Work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2011

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"It began with a blinding light. A divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). And with that, the fabric of reality was torn apart and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right.

It was madness pure and simple. But what if it were true?"
-- from back cover

Philip K Dick's thirty-third published novel, written in 1978 and published in 1981. VALIS is the first of Dick's final three novels (along with The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ) which are often referred to as the VALIS trilogy. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer was not originally intended as the final work of the trilogy. It does however fit comfortably with the two finished volumes and Dick himself called the three novels a trilogy, saying "the three do form a trilogy constellating around a basic theme."

VALIS is an unusual work dealing with philosophy and religion and in many ways can be considered autobiographical. It has been described as dense, complex, funny, a masterpiece, even insane and labelled as SF simply because no label quite fits it.

"It is about madness, pain, deception, death, obsessive delusory states of mind, cruelty, solitude, imprisonment, and it is a joy to read."
-- Washington Post

This is, as others have said, probably not the place to begin if you are new to Dick's work. I have recommended below what I think are some better places to start.

If you are new to Philip K Dick's work I would recommend the following novels (which generally seem to be regarded as among his best):

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Ubik (S.F. Masterworks)
The Man In The High Castle (S.F. Masterworks)
A Scanner Darkly (S.F. Masterworks)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (S.F. Masterworks)

That said, though some of PKD's works are better than others, to my mind they are all well worth reading. I would also recommend his short story collections.

I would also recommend Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick (Gollancz S.F.) .

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John M

A strange and unsettling read. Semi-autobiographical, so really for PKD fans rather than mainstream SF

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2018

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This is a seriously strange book, and really quite an unsettling read in places.
PKD is well known for his very many creative SF novels which are the product of a unique imagination, and that some of his work is influenced by the 1960s drug culture. He suffered from episodes of psychiatric illness with a psychotic episode in 1974. This is the basis of much of the novel Valis which is semi-autobiographical where he examines the causality and nature of his experiences through his alter ego Horselover Fat ('Horselover' being a translation of 'Philip' from Ancient Greek, and 'Fat' the translation of 'Dick' from German).
The novel can be read on many levels and raises a number of thought provoking angles, such as the nature of reality and delusion, and the basis of religious belief. PKD's writing cleverly draws the reader from the perspective that Horselover Fat is psychotic to the possibility that he may actually be chosen by Valis to reveal higher truths, and in this lies some ambiguity. In places it reads like a satire on religious beliefs and cults. There is also some scattering of black humour, particularly from his encounters with his Israeli counsellor.
However despite this, I found the start slow and difficult to read in places with too much rambling metaphysics and philosophy. This is really for the fans of PKD rather than those in search of a more mainstream SF novel, hence the 3-stars; quite a difficult book to judge.

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AT LAST!!! This fine classic book is available on Kindle!

Reviewed in Canada on 7 June 2022

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"VALIS", "THE DIVINE INVASION" and "RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH" are some of my favourite PKD books (along with "Minority Report", "Ubik", "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said", etc.). The Valis trilogy ("The Transmigration of Timothy Archer" is also part of it, but I don't really like that one much - too much philosophy, not enough action) and "Radio Free Albemuth" explore the science fiction of Christian religion and mythology. Of course, Mr. Dick adds his inimitable sarcastic style and comments to the subject, so it becomes a proper Sci-Fi "what if" exploration, rather than just a wholesale adoption of the Christian outlook. He obviously did extensive research, which he includes in the books also. After converting most of my library to e-books, I despaired of ever finding VALIS in an e-book, but, now, finally, here it is. Everyone can enjoy the Palm Garden.

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Un discreto romanzo.

Reviewed in Italy on 11 January 2018

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È il primo romanzo di PK Dick che ho letto. Devo subito dire che non mi sembra propriamente un romanzo di fantascienza, nonostante il titolo prenda il nome da una strana entità vagamente definita ed il cui ruolo appena si comprende. L'autore è l'io narrante del romanzo del quale è protagonista insieme al suo alter-ego, Horselover Fat, frutto della sua psicosi. Vi è una certa dose di riferimenti gnostici nel testo, ma la religione e la ricerca del Salvatore sono più che altro un elemento che caratterizza la follia del protagonista sdoppiato. Alcuni elementi sono autobiografici. Il romanzo è scritto bene fino al settimo capitolo, ovvero fino alla morte del secondo personaggio femminile di rilievo che vi compare, dopo di che diventa meno lucido e brillante nello stile. Il capitolo 13 pare essere quello finale, mentre il 14, quello che rivela la ricaduta psicotica dell'autore, sembra un'aggiunta immotivata. In tutta onestà, non so se raccomandarne la lettura.

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Utterly unique

Reviewed in Australia on 25 August 2019

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One of PKD's true masterpieces. Was he enlightened or occluded when he wrote it? Whichever, it is a remarkably erudite work that goes to the heart of the spiritual quest on which so many seem compelled to embark.

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John C. Woodcock

Valis and Exegesis: The epochal breakdown of Mind

Reviewed in the United States on 19 June 2013

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I think Dick's "Valis" can usefully be approached in conjunction with his "Exegesis" ("The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick") which is a partial collection of Dick's "mad" writings as he tried to come to grips with a revelation he had in 1974: "a sudden, discorporating slippage into vast and total knowledge that he would spend the rest of his life explicating, or exegeting." The posthumous publication of some of these texts highlights Dick's long and arduous attempt to understand what exactly was happening to him, in a similar manner to C. G. Jung's efforts, as recorded in his Red Book. I can choose any page at random to get a feel for sheer movement taking place, on-rushing fervour, a furore, gathering rapids, as punctuation breaks down, or ceases really to matter, as an onrushing life begins to prevail. It's like navigating a maelstrom at times, with little islands emerging only to be swept away again. The structure of that book is described as "a freewheeling voice that ranges through personal confession, esoteric scholarship, dream accounts, and fictional figures... one of the most improbable and mind-altering manuscripts ever brought to light."
This kind of writing cannot be categorized because it is expressive of a BREAKDOWN of fundamental categories such as mechanical space and linear past, present, and future, those very categories that constitute the background of our stabilized modern structure of consciousness. I could use categories like "fictive", or "imaginative", but these categories come loaded with a history that has deprived them of any truth or reality. In fact these words currently mean the opposite--not real, fantasy, entertainment only, falsity, etc.
But the phenomenology is conclusive.
The process Dick underwent is real and, crucially, has no referent outside itself. For example a breakdown of categories does not refer outside itself to a literal break down on a personal level or to the scale of a literal world catastrophe, although many people who are caught up in these background movements often make these misinterpretations. And yet, because this movement is the real background or the "within-ness" of the world, then it follows that madness or world catastrophe are not to be excluded after all.
How can we understand the necessity of this contradiction?
An example may help us here. C. G. Jung had a series of "world catastrophe" visions just prior to the outbreak of the First World War. In his book "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" he offers two contradictory interpretations. Being an experienced psychiatrist he understood psychosis very well and at first felt he was being menaced by one. But when the war broke out he began wonder instead how his personal inner experiences could have something to do with subsequent events in the real world (the catastrophe of the war). This question of the connection between inner psychic events and outer events in the world became a lifetime's work for Jung, and is no less important and perhaps no more understood today.
In fact, for the next several years Jung was caught up in psychic processes that involved a breakdown of categories such as inner and outer, and he went through a very real personal breakdown that simulated psychosis (auditory and visual hallucinations, extreme emotional states, etc.) but, unlike madness, Jung's ego remained intact, as Dick's has. He was able to reflect upon, as well as undergo the breakdown of categories.
His written record of this journey is now published as "The Red Book". Jung's understanding of what he went through is complex and beyond the scope of this book, but we can touch on two aspects that are relevant here. On the one hand, after Jung emerged from his immersion in the "breakdown", he returned to the categories of inner and outer and took up the question of how one could have anything to do with the other. For example, his theory of synchronicity is a sustained attempt to find a theoretical connection between inner events, say a dream, and a "coincidental" event in the outer world. On the other hand Jung seemed to accept the breakdown of categories (e. g. spatial and temporal categories that form the structure of modern consciousness) and to change accordingly in his self-definition. He thus became initiated by the experiences themselves into a new reality. This initiation gave Jung the power to form new conceptions appropriate to this reality and thus perceive new aspects of the real world. These new conceptions gave rise, for example, to his unique notion of soul as absolute interiority.
Jung's complex and contradictory responses to the "breakdown of categories" have given rise to conflicting theoretical and methodological paths within the Jungian community but may be sympathetically understood as the result of a pioneer's attempt to face the sheer terror of participating in a breakdown of the very categories that support modern consciousness itself. And, if consciousness itself is undergoing a transformation, then personal breakdowns and world convulsions are highly likely, as our history demonstrates so well.
One of the other significant category breakdowns relevant to Dick's writing is that of the pair of opposites: doing and reflection. Within our modern structure of consciousness we consider these a pair of opposites. We can do something in life or reflect on something in life but not both at the same time.
In the kind of writing that Dick and Jung did, it seems that both happen simultaneously or something else happens that subsumes both within itself. I call this "happening" PARTICIPATION. Dick participates with the mind in its breakdown and writes it as he participates with it! Thus, participation can be sharply distinguished from automatic writing where the writer's consciousness plays no part. It is also different from having an experience and subsequently writing about that experience from memory. The writing that emerges from this participatory process therefore is a form (it's probably too early to call it a genre) that EMBODIES such category breakdowns (inner-outer, past-present-future, action-reflection, etc.)
To this extent such writing will appear crazy, as writers of this emerging form are forced to express mind-bending notions that are faithful to the phenomenon yet incoherent when subjected to the requirements of our stable modern form of consciousness.
I recently saw an example of such "nonsense" when I was awake, late at night, unable to sleep. I was being besieged by these and other crazy thoughts. I turned on the TV and to my surprise saw a re-run of "Terminator" (1984). The heroine (Sarah) and her rescuer are being chased by the Terminator and are resting in a tunnel where she seeks to understand the logic of what is happening. The machines had sent a Terminator back through time to kill her so that she cannot give birth to the hero and then train him in warfare to save future humanity from the machines. The mere presence of this future machine forces this simple waitress to gain the very skills that the machines fear, and to become pregnant with the future hero. Her rescuer had been arrested and a forensic psychologist listened to his story of travel from the future. He declared the prisoner completely delusional. The heroine, however, is willing to listen as he talked, not of futures, but possible futures. From their point of view, now in the Present, they were confronted with possible futures that were penetrating into the Present. Their actions mattered, although they could not predict the outcome (whether Sarah would be killed or not). It seems from this and other like examples ("Minority Report" etc.)that the idea of possible futures intersecting with the Present and demanding action, without knowing the outcome, becomes important only when the usual categories that support present-day consciousness break down.
A key methodological approach in producing this kind of "mad" writing is that the author takes seriously whatever phenomenon presents itself, in its own terms. The author must be able to remain "within" the phenomenon long enough so that it can teach her what it means in terms of its own logic, no matter how crazy it may sound when appraised from the categories of our current form of consciousness. The author is thus compelled to think self-presentational thoughts that defy ordinary rationality.
I'll give one example here from Dick's book, "Valis". Dick tells us of a dream he had in which he is living with this wife:

I have had dreams of another place myself, a lake up north and the cottages and small rural houses north and the cottages and small rural houses around its south shore. In my dream I arrive there from Southern California, where I live; this is a vacation spot, but it is very old-fashioned. All the houses are wooden, made of the brown shingles so popular in California before World War Two. The roads are dusty. The cars are older, too.

Following the dream, which Dick accepts completely in its own terms, he begins to compare its reality with his ordinary outer reality, which does not include many of the elements in the dream. He then gets a memory of his father and realizes that in his dream he is living his father's life. From this conceptual achievement, Dick argues further that the individual contains the history not only of her personal life but of our entire race, back to its origins, back to the stars: "This is gene pool memory, the memory of the DNA."
Now this final thought has been discovered and articulated by others. In modern times, C. G. Jung has developed a unique view of history which is very close to Dick's, namely that we are psychologically the "outcome" of many historical transformations in consciousness, all of which may be reconstructed in our modern minds, with the correct methodology--history, as much as it is psychologically relevant to our lives, may be found "within".
The really significant point here that I want to make is that Dick did not gain this knowledge externally, as a student of psychology might do so. He was initiated into it by the phenomenon--his dream, which he took to be as real as his waking life! His eyes were opened to another reality!
To take this line of argument a step further, we can ask what happens if, when the very categories that support our current form of consciousness break down, we stay immersed, participating in the chaos that logically follows, as Dick does. The process becomes mad and both "Exegesis" and "Valis" feel that way, from the perspective of our modern-day consciousness.
But Dick emerges with an astounding conclusion.
Dick discovered that a reversal in a fundamental polarity takes place.
Let me explain.
For thousands of years we have slowly stabilized a form of consciousness that has a structure of order/disorder. Consciousness is order and outside, beyond the boundary is disorder, chaos, evil, etc. Consciousness at first had to be periodically consumed by disorder and then renewed. It could not, for many generations, be relied upon to last forever. The dark irrational powers were a constant threat to the order of daylight consciousness and had to be held at bay by ritual acts of warding off. They also periodically had to be given their day--a day ritualized, for example, by the ancient Saturnalia or the Celtic Day of the Dead.
Over time our daylight consciousness became stabilized enough for these rituals to lose their power and necessity. Today they have degenerated into Halloween, etc. They have no psychological value. So now, we live in a stable world of rationality which is occasionally threatened by events evaluated as irrational (emotions, visions, delusions, the psychoses, etc.), all of which are dealt with primarily by medications, thus "warded off" (literalized by psychotic patients being put in the "back wards"). The content of irrational outbursts (or more accurately, in-bursts) are not listened to or trusted in any way by the "healing profession".
With this context we can more easily gain access to Dick's discovery. He shows us that if we take madness seriously and in a sustained way; if we take it on its own terms, as it presents itself to us, then the fundamental polarity that has driven our Western culture for thousands of years, giving rise, finally to our modern structure of consciousness--the rational-irrational polarity--reverses itself!
Astounding!
Dick outlines this reversal in his cosmogony (from "Valis"):

The single most striking realization that Fat had come to was his concept of the universe as irrational and governed by an irrational mind, the creator deity. If the universe were taken to be rational, not irrational, then something breaking into it might seem irrational, since it would not belong. But Fat, having reversed everything, saw the rational breaking into the irrational. The immortal plasmate had invaded our world and the plasmate was totally rational, whereas our world is not.

What this means for us is this: Where we feel most sane is where we are in fact insane. Our modern consciousness has so far isolated itself from everything else (the private self) that it is now psychotic--yet, of course, it thinks of itself as totally sane. Furthermore those aspects of our psychological being, now "persona non grata"--dreams, visions, hallucinations, etc.--are the harbours of the very sanity that can cure us of the insanity of our present psychological isolation.
This kind of writing demands both reflection and doing, i.e., what I earlier called participation! The ability of the author to engage this way probably determines the extent to which he could legitimately be called mad. The doing is a needing to act without knowing the outcome in the sense that modern consciousness knows (subject-object knowing)--just as Sarah had to act in Terminator!
If we know the outcome then obviously we are merely repeating the past in some way, since present-day consciousness knows only in terms of the past (memory). This "doing" can at first be frightening to those who feel the "demand" to act in this way. Yet one can get used to it and even become curious.
"Valis" and "Exegesis" are both accounts of the real process that a human being undergoes if she is pulled in to participation with the Mind as it undergoes an epochal breakdown, so that all the categories that support modern consciousness (especially spatial and temporal categories) go under, taking the author with them, sometimes into insanity, but as we can see with Phillip K. Dick, also in sanity, the kind of sanity that our normal consciousness will judge as insane.

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Enticing madness

Reviewed in India on 23 June 2014

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Reality melds with imagination(is it?) and delirium merges into reason in Dick's attempt to rationalize his own experiences in this post "breakdown" autobiographical novel about death, psychosis, obsession, theology and SF. 'VALIS' is an insight into the core of Philip K. Dick-ism and a rabbit-hole I didn't wish to come out of. When I did come out, I was enriched and oh, so high!

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