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The Divine Invasion (Valis Trilogy) by Philip K The Divine Invasion (Valis Trilogy) by Philip K. Dick Ebook The Divine Invasion (Valis Trilogy) currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook The Divine Invasion (Valis Trilogy) please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Series:::: Valis Trilogy (Book 2)+++Paperback:::: 272 pages+++Publisher:::: Mariner Books; Reissue edition (October 18, 2011)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0547572425+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0547572420+++Product Dimensions::::5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 0547572425 ISBN13 978-0547572 Download here >> Description: God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. Featuring virtual reality, parallel worlds, and interstellar travel, The Divine Invasion blends philosophy and adventure in a way few authors can achieve.As the middle novel of Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know—even God himself. Philip K. Dick (PKD) presents a more coherent story here than in VALIS, the first book of the trilogy. Part of what made the first book interesting was the unreliable narrator. Here, we get more reliable narrators but a less reliable timeline (again on purpose, to good effect). I think one can safely skip reading VALIS before this book, though it did help for understanding Herbs change in behavior toward Rybys.This book drops references to western hermeticism and assumes a modest background in Kabbalah and Greek mythology. It reminds me of a Charles Williams (CW) novel, in how supernatural forces enter ordinary life (ordinary _future_ life at least -- with space colonies, flying cars, and vibro-lutes). CW goes through an impressive effort to stick to a _message_ of Christian orthodoxy, despite a _medium_ of the occult. PKD has no such attachment to orthodoxy, but this frees him to present the Good News in entirely new ways. He uses the _language_ of Christian orthodoxy (among other doxies), to convey its hopefulness, without doctrinal attachments. 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