Andrew M. Butler offers his theory on the plot of the book "The Owl in Daylight" the book Philip K Dick was working on when he died, which would have been the 5th book in the VALIS trilogy, the single most important and revealing trilogy ever written.
I don't believe this to be accurate, but it is by far the best plot summary I've ever read:
A god-like being, Ditheon, fuses the Torah and Jesus Christ into a single being and takes over an individual. A scientist travels through the events of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a Beethoven-like composer is writing a film score, while pursued by aliens.
A god-like being, Ditheon, fuses the Torah and Jesus Christ into a single being and takes over an individual. A scientist travels through the events of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a Beethoven-like composer is writing a film score, while pursued by aliens.
A scientist creates a theme park that is related to the events of his youth, whereupon a sentient artificial intelligence imprisons him within it, as a youth. He has to travel through Dantean realities (and artist, political activist and gay social networks in Berkeley of the 1940s and 1950s) to return home, and resume his life as an old man.
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