[John Carvill]

>
> That's the VALIS trilogy: VALIS, The Divine Invasion & The
> Transmigration of Timothy Archer. What you're talking about is
> VALIS, the other two novels have different plots. In Invasion Earth is
> invaded by God (from Outer Space). In Trasmigration somebody finds
> evidence that Christ (or better, those who invented Christ) used
> hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Ah, yeah, you're right. I was thinking of VALIS as the whole trilogy.
I really loved that book, read it on a plane coming back from holiday,
couldn't stop laughing. That bit where he writes his 'letter to the
authorities': "I Philip K Dick, have never liked you. But..."

Yet another possible entry on the IV 'Required Reading' list, which
keeps on growin'

AS an aside, again please help my memory, I once read a reference to
one of Dick's books, either 'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer' or
'Time Out of Joint', being a 'precursor' to Gravity's Rainbow.

Thanks
J