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''[[The Philip K. Dick Reader]]''<ref>{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Philip K.|title=Philip K. Dick Reader, The|year=1997|publisher=Citadel Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-8065-1856-1|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780806518565}}</ref> is an introduction to the variety of Dick's short fiction. |
''[[The Philip K. Dick Reader]]''<ref>{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Philip K.|title=Philip K. Dick Reader, The|year=1997|publisher=Citadel Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-8065-1856-1|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780806518565}}</ref> is an introduction to the variety of Dick's short fiction. |
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''[[VALIS]]'' (1980) is perhaps Dick's most [[postmodernism|postmodern]] and autobiographical novel, examining his own unexplained experiences. It may also be his most academically studied work, and was adapted as an opera by [[Tod Machover]].<ref>{{cite web| last = Machover| first = Tod| author-link = Tod Machover| title = Valis CD| publisher = [[MIT Media Lab]]| url = http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/Tod/valiscd.html| access-date = April 14, 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080312210723/http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/Tod/valiscd.html| archive-date = March 12, 2008| url-status = dead}}</ref> Later works like the [[VALIS trilogy]] were heavily autobiographical, many with "two-three-seventy-four" (2-3-74) references and influences. The word [[VALIS]] is the acronym for ''Vast Active Living Intelligence System''. Later, Dick theorized that VALIS was both a "reality generator" and a means of extraterrestrial communication. A fourth VALIS manuscript, ''Radio Free Albemuth'', although composed in 1976, was posthumously published in 1985. This work is described by the publisher (Arbor House) as "an introduction and key to his magnificent VALIS trilogy".{{ |
''[[VALIS]]'' (1980) is perhaps Dick's most [[postmodernism|postmodern]] and autobiographical novel, examining his own unexplained experiences. It may also be his most academically studied work, and was adapted as an opera by [[Tod Machover]].<ref>{{cite web| last = Machover| first = Tod| author-link = Tod Machover| title = Valis CD| publisher = [[MIT Media Lab]]| url = http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/Tod/valiscd.html| access-date = April 14, 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080312210723/http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/Tod/valiscd.html| archive-date = March 12, 2008| url-status = dead}}</ref> Later works like the [[VALIS trilogy]] were heavily autobiographical, many with "two-three-seventy-four" (2-3-74) references and influences. The word [[VALIS]] is the acronym for ''Vast Active Living Intelligence System''. Later, Dick theorized that VALIS was both a "reality generator" and a means of extraterrestrial communication. A fourth VALIS manuscript, ''Radio Free Albemuth'', although composed in 1976, was posthumously published in 1985. This work is described by the publisher (Arbor House) as "an introduction and key to his magnificent VALIS trilogy".
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