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The main character in VALIS is Dick himself. He calls himself Horselover Fat, which is a translation of his name. `Horselover` is English for the Greek word `fil-hippos`, lover/friend of horses (like `filosofy`, friend of knowledge), and `fat`, being English for the German word `dick`.

Horselover Fat wrote his exegesis: Criptica Scriptura, explaning his view on the world in a not so few, not so simple rules. The UK edition of VALIS also included Cosmology and Cosmogony, a chapbook containing selections from Dick's Exegesis.

Dick's friends (and fellow science fiction writers) James P. Blaylock, K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers also appear as thinly disguised characters in the novel.

VALIS is a part of the VALIS trilogy of novels:

• VALIS ( 1981)
• The Divine Invasion (1981)
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ( 1982)

See also:

• Radio Free AlbemuthA posthumously published novel by Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth is essentially a rewrite of his previous novel Valis with many of the strong elements of gnosticism in the latter work removed. The alternate history plot concerns the corrupt US Presid
• Gnosticism

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