num_pages: 242
description: VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
language: English
title: VALIS
titlecomplete: VALIS
characters: Horselover Fat, Philip K. Dick
genres: American, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 29084
places: Santa Ana, California
series: VALIS Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Foreign Novel
publisher: Vintage Books