“In 1981, Philip K. Dick published what is arguably his most demented, paranoid and self-referential slipstream novel, *Valis*. What meager plot the book contained concerned Vast Active Living Intelligence System (VALIS), which, in short, attempted to explain what every religion and creed known to humanity is really on about. *Valis* was Dick's search for discernable reality, if such a thing exists”
