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Interestingly, it was actually his original idea for VALIS, and wasn't published until after his death. He scrapped the original idea when he decided to make VA
by Trasmatta 3y ago
Interestingly, it was actually his original idea for VALIS, and wasn't published until after his death. He scrapped the original idea when he decided to make VALIS much more directly about himself and his experiences.
...but in typical PKD fashion, it gets weird, because he adapted the rough plot of Radio Free Albemuth into the book VALIS as a fictional movie called VALIS.
- prepend 3y agoIt was really fun for me as I first read RFA and then learned there were more books that fit into the plot of RFA. Not everyone is into postmodern American Gnosticism , for those that are PKD’s last works are a goldmine. And he also has lots of journals where he just goes on batshit crazy threads (some are collected as the Exegesis of Philip K Dick). I really would have loved to see his collected bulletin board posts or Usenet posts if he had just lived a few more years.