Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Horselover Fat’s nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.
As we had been told, originally, long ago, to do; I kept my commission.
VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasiconsciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.