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The Divine Invasion Paperback – 8 July 1996

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Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel.

God is in exile. The only man who can help is clinically dead. Herb Asher, an audio engineer by trade, is in suspended animation following a car accident that appears to have taken his life. As he floats in cryonic suspension he awaits his new spleen and dreams back through the last six years of his life which reveal much of his bizarre journey and the battle with Belial, the force of evil that will stop at nothing to achieve its goal.

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HarperVoyager
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8 July 1996
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12.9 x 1.73 x 19.8 cm
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0006482503
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978-0006482505
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'A great philosophical writer' Independent

'Really excellent entertainment' Daily Telegraph

'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' Sunday Times

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Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, ‘The Man in the High Castle’ (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperVoyager; 1st edition (8 July 1996)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0006482503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006482505
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.73 x 19.8 cm

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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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Good buy!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2018

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Perfect value for money! Old but not worn out at all! Perfect condition

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Should be on your shelf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2020

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A classic , one of Dick's best books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2013

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Like a lot of Dick's books, this espouses interesting philosophical dilemmas in clunky SF language. As such its a slightly disappointing partner to "VALIS" and "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer".

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Very fast and arrived as new! Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2014

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If you like your sci-fi,thoughtful,dark and somewhat paranoid,you can do no wrong starting here with this book.And the pages stayed in the book!

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Very disappointed with Dick's execution of this idea...

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Before this I had read only one Philip K Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS) - a book I very much enjoyed. I thought the premise of a malicious replacement for God taking over our universe was a good one and still do. However, the story did not live up to my expectations, partly due to the fact that this malicious god (Belial) is not very utilised in the story and does not even make an appearance until near the end. The ending itself is a kind of anti-climax and I feel the book ends with a very weak final confrontation.

I had high hopes for this and very much wanted to like the novel which was why I kept reading in the hope it would begin to improve in my eyes. I was hoping for the kind of profound philosophical observation of which Dick is clearly capable but found almost none of it. The only part that interested me was that was the idea that Belial merely enables us to see people in the world in the worst kind of way. That singular, small observation was pretty much all I thought worthwhile taking from the entire novel. Also of great frustration was the confused structure of the narrative, mainly the fact that a large part of the novel flips between the present in which God is returning to earth as a small child and one of the characters reliving his memories whilst his body is in cryogenic sleep awaiting a new spleen, which does no favours for the plot at all.

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1981 he was at his best still

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1981 he was at his best still

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