The Divine Invasion
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781400095766 (140009576X)
Publish date: March 8th 2005
Publisher: Vintage
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Space,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Theology
Series: VALIS Trilogy (#2)
As I’m not a science fiction fan, I can’t remember why I bought this book. I struggled through technical terms and a vision of a future world that I fear may be all to real – isolated humans living in steel-cold domes on distant planets – and, when I realised that for four nights in a row I’d manage...
Worth reading but completely bizarre.
There is the usual time-tripping here. Pay attention. It is like a LOST episode, and indeed probably inspired some of the concepts used in that estimable show. You need to keep track not only of where you are in space, but in time. The Divine Invasion posits a scenario in which god, Yahweh, was esse...
What utter crap. The first 100 pages or so of the book were somewhat coherent while the last 140 were nearly unreadable. This is a book about how God manages to reincarnate himself again through a new virgin birth. And then Philip K. Dick goes off the crazy end and starts writing in his sleep or som...