{"product_id":"valis","title":"Valis","description":"\u003cp\u003eVALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?--the basis for the film Blade Runner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is VALIS?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mind-bending work of autofiction, 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 in a gripping story about divine intervention. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"More disturbing than any novel by [Carson] McCullers,\" (*Roberto Bolaño), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso in the VALIS Trilogy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Divine Invasion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43789731758154,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/4886\/2538\/files\/26172353482382.jpg?v=1783370654","url":"https:\/\/pipspoursandprose.com\/products\/valis","provider":"Pip's Pours \u0026 Prose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}