The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. One recurring symbol that he has been seeing is an ichthys. Nick calls the source of his visions VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). He confides in Rachel and his best friend, science-fiction writer Philip K. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Dick's last novel, is by turns theological thriller, roman à clef, and disenchanted portrait of late 1970s California life, based loosely on the controversial career of Bishop James Pike-a close friend and kindred spirit. Nick has been experiencing strange visions and dreams. The Divine Invasion (1981), a sequel to VALIS, is a powerful exploration of gnostic insight and its human consequences. It is a harrowing self-portrait of a man torn between conflicting interpretations of what might be gnostic illumination or psychotic breakdown. The late masterpiece VALIS (1981) is a novelistic reworking of 'the events of 2-3-74,' when Dick's life was transformed by what he believed was a mystical revelation. In A Maze of Death (1970), a darkly speculative mystery that foreshadows Dick's final novels, colonists on the planet Delmak-O try to determine the nature of the God-or 'Mentufacturer'-who plots their destiny. Dick's first novel about the VALIS concept originally titled ' VALISystem A ' (written 1976), was published as Radio Free Albemuth after Dick's death. Dick which include VALIS (1978), The Divine Invasion (1980), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dick's final years, when religious revelation, always important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme. The VALIS trilogy is a set of science fiction/philosophical novels by author Philip K. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of America's history.

VALIS by Philip K. Dick