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Early in 1974 Dick felt a "pink beam" flashing through his head, a religious experience--or mild stroke--which inspired him to write his vast theological "Exegesis". In Valis the pink beam illuminates Dick's mentally unstable friend Horselover Fat; Philip is Greek for lover of horses and Dick is German for fat.
Dick's alter ego Fat duly creates the weird Gnostic theology of the Exegesis, with its visions of salvation from the insane side of reality--the Empire, whose Black Iron Prison cages us all. "The Empire never ended." Also there's a three-eyed race among us and all time between AD 103 and 1974 may be a divine illusion...
The resulting debates between Fat and friends, including Dick, are often hilariously insane. It's clear that Fat is deluded--until they all see the SF movie Valis, whose rock star actor-director suggests David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth and which uncannily features Exegesis code phrases, timeslips, third eyes, early Christian symbols and pink beams.
Maybe the film's Vast Active Living Intelligence System, a satellite which controls minds via lasers, is the same as the messiah imagined by Fat? Naturally he and friends contact the director, leading to an unexpected interview with VALIS itself.
Dick was the supreme SF master of booby-trapped reality and Valis celebrates his own escape from the trap that claimed him in 1974. Chilling, moving and acknowledged by the SF Encyclopedia as the finest novel of Dick's last years. --David Langford
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Kerosina Trade edition first printing 1988. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean. Bumped spine ends, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges, more pronounced to the top edge which also has very feint spots. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels lightly read and very tight. Grades near fine. Jacket is complete and tidy, with minor rubbing to the front joint area. The spine is sunned, resulting in lighter blue than the panels. Jacket grades very good. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid collectors copy of this Shepard title, this is the unsigned trade edition limited to 1000 copies. Seller Inventory # 007628
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. This is a near fine 256 page hardcover copy in a mylar protected DJ, black spine. Signed by Kim Stanley Robinson with the additional note: For Rick, A tribute to PKD, Best, Stan, Chapel Hill 1988. Seller Inventory # 104354
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Kerosina Trade edition first printing 1987. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean. Sharp spine ends, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, with light toning to edges, more pronounced to the top edge which also has very feint spots. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels lightly read and very tight. Grades near fine. Jacket is complete and tidy, with minor crimping edges, and a light dink to the front joint. The spine is sunned, resulting in the loss of pink to Dick's name on the spine.Overall grades near fine. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. This book is fitted with a non adhesive archival quality book protector to make a worthy addition to your collection. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A solid collectors copy of this UK first edition PKD title, this is the trade edition limited to 1500 copies. Seller Inventory # 007622
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine, no visible wear to the dust jacket, the book itself is in fantastic condition throughout. Limited to a run of 1500 copies. All our books are second hand and as so may have slight wear, creasing or scuffing. They have each been examined and are complete to the best of our knowledge. If you require more detail on condition, please do not hesitate to contact us for additional photos and description. Seller Inventory # ABE-1702766038723
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. Fine/Fine. Black cloth with gilt lettering in black and pink DJ. Limited to 2,200 copies. Third edition from Kerosina and their first trade edition. Comes with signed Kim Stanley Robinson bookplate laid in. Signed by Editor. Seller Inventory # 013849
Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Roberts, Keith (illustrator). First Edition. First hardcover edition. Originally published in the US as a paperback original by Bantam in 1981 and then in the UK also as a paperback original by Corgi Books later in the same year. Small bump to top right hand corner of the front panel of the boards. Page edges a little browned. Jacket has been protected by a cover and is near Fine. First printing. Jacket design and frontispiece by Keith Roberts. Limited to 1,500 copies. Seller Inventory # 011567
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. First Hardcover British Edition, 1987, Kerosina. 1 of 1,500 copies. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Wrapped in archival mylar. Tight binding. Clear text. Top edge shows slight aging. Slight foxing on side edge. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire. Seller Inventory # 211206001
Book Description Hardcover. SF novel, first published as a Bantam paperback original in 1981, and.first in the Valis trilogy followed by THE DIVINE INVASION (1981) and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982) This Kerosina first hardcover edition adds a new afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson. 1500 trade copies printed. THIS COPY SIGNED BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON. Laid in the publisher's review slip and publicity sheet. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). First hardcover edition (& 1st printing). Seller Inventory # 02951
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0948893168-4