Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Sep 4 07:31:47 CDT 2009


On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:23 AM, umberto rossi wrote:

> On 4 Sep 2009 at 9:51, Carvill, John wrote:
>
>> What's the name of
>> that trilogy of PK Dick books, where he thinks he's receiving  
>> messages
>> from God or aliens or whatever, and starts working on his own  
>> cosmology?
>
> 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.
> _____________
> umberto rossi

Don't forget "Radio Free Albemuth," from about the same time period  
and very much in the spirit of "Valis" & "The Divine Invasion."



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