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First edition of the second book in Dick's gnostic VALIS trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the publisher's official bookplate produced for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Rowena Morrill. Typography by Patricia Manzone. "With The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick, science fiction's most metaphysical writer for two decades takes a giant step along a vector he has long been traveling, and may be pointing the way to the new extended SF of the post-1980 period" (Norman Spinrad). "The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation - this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years" (Ursula Le Guin, The New Republic).

The Divine Invasion is a 1981 science fiction novel by American author Philip K. Dick. It is the second book in the VALIS trilogy, and explores themes of gnosticism, the nature of god, and redemption. It was originally published under the title 'VALIS Regained'.