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The Divine Invasion (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: HarperVoyager; New edition edition (8 Jul 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006482503
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006482505
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77,471 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A great philosophical writer' Independent 'Really excellent entertainment' Daily Telegraph 'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' Sunday Times

Has old pro Dick seen The Light? There've been sf novels with religious themes before (e.g., Blish's A Case of Conscience, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Zelazny's Lord of Light), but none as relentlessly theological in tone, texture, and import as this. God ("Yah"), booted off Earth by the Romans, has taken up residence on a remote methane-snow planet. And when squatters from Earth arrive, Yah decides it's time to make a comeback as his own Messiah. So he contacts dome-dweller Herb Asher (who agrees to claim God's paternity); impregnates ailing neighbor Rybys Romney; and journeys to Earth in the latter's womb - a necessary subterfuge, since Earth is controlled by the Belial-inspired Christian-Islamic church and the Scientific Legate, with computer Big Noodle keeping tabs on everyone. Thus reborn on Earth as Emmanuel, Yah is helped by Elias Tate (who's Elijah reincarnated) and by girl-of-mystery Zina (who turns out to be the living embodiment of the Torah) to recover his powers and challenge Belial for the supremacy. With profuse, muddled plotting in the Dick manner - though without any of the usual Dick playfulness - this is destined, perhaps, to be pored over in seminaries; but it's far, far too heavy to attract many mainstream sf readers. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel. God is in exile. The only man who can help is clinically dead. Herb Asher, an audio engineer by trade, is in suspended animation following a car accident that appears to have taken his life. As he floats in cryonic suspension he awaits his new spleen and dreams back through the last six years of his life which reveal much of his bizarre journey and the battle with Belial, the force of evil that will stop at nothing to achieve its goal.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A discursive look at the nature of faith and the soul., 23 Jun 2000
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Once again Dick asks the question "What is it that makes us human?". This time from the point of view of our relationship with faith, the soul and post existential theology.

The beauty of this book lies in the extraordinary compassion Dick shows for his characters. Not surprising as his central argument is that we are all of us a complex set of alternate points of view. Humanity lies in the search for truth and through it the absorption of our various facets.

This book is a lot simpler than it seems and a great deal funnier than one might imagine. It doesn't have to be read as part of the trilogy and can be an interesting alternative point of entry to Dick's other work. But then again, start wherever you can and read them all. You will only have yourself to blame if you miss out!

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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite PKD, 3 Jan 2001
Part of PKDick's semi-religious trilogy, but much easier to read than the confusing first volume, VALIS. This is also a moving story, which I enjoyed hugely. Some of the theology is strange - you have to be in the right mood to be receptive to it. But he has a unique way of making you care what happens to his characters. Superb
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a mind altering drug, 25 Mar 2004
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And a wonderful one at that, it takes you on a rollercoster of emotions, revalations, realisations and sets you down with a profoundly altered consiousness for several days! Brilliant!
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best?
First published in 1981 this must have been one of PKD's last novels.

It deals with the same themes of Valis and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer but that was more or less... Read more

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1.0 out of 5 stars Really too late a novel to be a place to start
Philip K. Dick had gone down his own road by the time of the VALIS trilogy , his earlier works are very much a better place to start if you want to get some inkling of how he got... Read more
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