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Deus Irae
In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an arr...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
July 1st 2009
by Vintage
(first published 1976)
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Like most of the work Philip K. Dick in the last decade of his life, Deus Irae is a more a philosophy and theology book and less of Science Ficiton book. PKD was never successful getting his non-sci-fi texts printed during his lifetime so his work always has those elements, and perhaps his work was better for it. Deus Irae, at its heart, is a treatise about the purpose of good and evil in this world and touches upon some of the classic questions about Christianity. In the book's broken world ...more
There are cute talking mutants and indeed cute AI's with mad sphinx like ways. The quantity of non-human conversation is almost Narnian in its excess.
This novel is either much cleverer than me or considerably stupid dressed up as clever. I'm really ambivalent about the whole thing. It is an experience, bits of which are thought provoking if not exactly enjoyable, leaving me feeling like I have been exposed to some modernist architecture. Much work has clearly gone into it, but was it...more
This novel is either much cleverer than me or considerably stupid dressed up as clever. I'm really ambivalent about the whole thing. It is an experience, bits of which are thought provoking if not exactly enjoyable, leaving me feeling like I have been exposed to some modernist architecture. Much work has clearly gone into it, but was it...more
"Deus Irae"is decidedly unlike your usual post-apocalyptic science fiction fare. This work explores a perennial issue in face of utter destruction and misery: the philosophical problem of theodicy, or the compatibility between the existence of an evil which reigns so supremely as to allow the world to be devastated and the existence of a goodly, omnipotent God. It depicts a society where the old Christian religion, their numbers rapidly declining, was superseded by an apocalyptic cult,...more
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Salut, je viens de finir Deus Irae co-écrit par Dick et Zelazny, et je m'en vais vous livrer un petit avis avec peut-être des spoilers dans les coins.
Ce livre raconte donc la recherche, par un jeune homme tronc et dans un unvers post-apocalyptique, du Dieu de colère, un homme qui a provoqué le cataclysme.
Enfin ça, c'est ce que raconte la quatrième de couverture. 'histoire
quant à elle nous place dans un monde d'après la Guerre (vous savez, celle qui aurait déja dû avoir lieu ...more
Ce livre raconte donc la recherche, par un jeune homme tronc et dans un unvers post-apocalyptique, du Dieu de colère, un homme qui a provoqué le cataclysme.
Enfin ça, c'est ce que raconte la quatrième de couverture. 'histoire
quant à elle nous place dans un monde d'après la Guerre (vous savez, celle qui aurait déja dû avoir lieu ...more
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At points the narrative is reminiscent of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The conflict between the two religious groups, the Christians and the Servants of Wrath could be read as allegorical of U.S.-Soviet relations during the Cold War. The role of visual imagery in religion represented in the narrative resonates with the Baudrillardian notion of simulacra. One of the protagonists is a “phocomelus,” an armless and legless person, which seems to be a recurring type in Dick’s novels—Hoppy in Dr. Bloodmoney...more
if you are into PKD works where religious allegories and drug induced dystopian sci-fi happily co-exist, this one is really great..... a pretty standard PKD set of ordinary, kinda unsympathetic characters on a pilgrimage to find carlton lufteufel - the last commander in chief of the UN type organization and the man responsible for pushing the button - in order to paint a mural for a fringe religion. maybe not in the top dozen or so books that ive read by him but better than quite a few as well.
Mas que ciencia ficción, una excusa para hablar de religión. Y aún cuando el tema me interesa, se me hizo largo y aburrido. ¿El problema? Quizás que la aventura es mínima, o que los personajes no enganchan, o que mi cabeza no estaba lo suficientemente despejada para captar el subtexto. O que como siempre en la obra de Dick, parece que faltaran piezas completas de historia que debe rellenar el lector.
A 4-star book with one star extra for sympathy. Seriously, 3.37!?
This is pretty much Dr. Bloodmoney + the theology of the VALIS trilogy. AND THERE IS NOTHING NOT-AMAZING ABOUT THAT. It's still funny and quirky, too.
I'm sure this is thanks to Zelazny, but this is one of the better written PKD books too (well, I'm sure any PKD book would feel that way after reading Clans of the Alphane Moon, but hey), and I actually would recommend this book to someone who just started read...more
This is pretty much Dr. Bloodmoney + the theology of the VALIS trilogy. AND THERE IS NOTHING NOT-AMAZING ABOUT THAT. It's still funny and quirky, too.
I'm sure this is thanks to Zelazny, but this is one of the better written PKD books too (well, I'm sure any PKD book would feel that way after reading Clans of the Alphane Moon, but hey), and I actually would recommend this book to someone who just started read...more
Dick is one of strangest author I've ever read. This was my 4th book in a row that I read by him. It read like a spotaneous creative writing excersise though and I had to put him down for a while after this. Though strangely funny- not nearly as poigniant and vital as his other stuff.
I think I would give this one 4.5 stars if I could. It's a great vision of a post-apocalyptic future with mutants (the encounters with which are set forth in a very fairy-tale-esque manner) and a man-god who set off the bomb and what have you, but it was kind of disjointed (clearly the result of a collaboration) and could have used some more thorough editing. I swear at one point they said the bomb was 16 years ago and at another that it was 90+... neither of which would really fit with the stor...more
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i have been reading through pkd's work on my eReader. I read all of these books 20-30 years ago. i am having a great time rereading. dick's work is even more exciting now than it was when he first wrote.
"Churches and the Cosa Nostra have something in common: a sort of pristine indifference at the very top levels. All the malignant chores fall to the smallfries down at the bottom."
Interesting, but patchy tale of religious rivalries in a post-apocalyptic USA. The second half is far better than the uneven first half.
Good book. Starts slow but gains momentum. I found the world itself more interesting than the religious philosophy. I kind of wish the world had been as fleshed out as the ideas. Well worth reading though.
If you like the fallout series, (especially the classic games) this is worth reading just for the similiarities.
I just couldn't get into this. I've really liked other Dick and Zelazny I've read, but this combination just wasn't to my tastes.
Not one of Dick's best, but very much entertaining nonetheless.
Definitely weird. Intersting though.
( O Deus da fúria )
Muddled and tedious.
This book is totally sweet. So good. You got yourself a strange, future, post-apocalyptic relgion, a god figure, a cripple, some other crazy junk. This doesn't deal with parallel worlds...an oddity for PKD.
oh those malfunctioning autofacs!
lovely short novel about a genetically altered INC handicap (due to the apocolyptic fallout event caused by the great Deus Irae) on his religious sojourn across the barren wasteland earth...
lovely short novel about a genetically altered INC handicap (due to the apocolyptic fallout event caused by the great Deus Irae) on his religious sojourn across the barren wasteland earth...
I enjoyed Deus Irae quite a bit, but not quite as much as I enjoy Phillip K. Dick or Roger Zelazny individually. The overall story arc felt like something Dick would come up with, while the flow of the text seemed more like Zelazny's. Even if I do like each of these authors on their own more than teamed up, this novel is still absolutely worth the read.
this actually turned out much better than i had anticipated. some of the prose is a bit clunky, but the ideas come through, and the feats of imagination are mind-bending.
I liked a lot about this book, but it felt like it was still a few revisions away from being ready to publish. Even ignoring the plethora of typographical errors, there are some very awkwardly worded sentences. One that uses the same adverb twice.
Wacky and weird. Interesting that the entry here doesn't mention Roger Zelazny, who co-wrote this with Mr Dick.
If you like Iain M Banks and/or James Morrow, you should love this.
If you like Iain M Banks and/or James Morrow, you should love this.
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One of Dick's later, "gnostic" science fiction novels, co-written with Roger Zelazny. As usual, epistemological and religious themes play throughout.
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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memo...more
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