DEUS IRAE (with Roger Zelazny)
American Editions
From the back cover of the 1977 Dell edition
On their own they have written landmark works that have added whole new dimension of wonder to the field of science fiction. Now, in Deus Irae, they have created that ALA Booklist calls "themost successful collaboration in years!" -set in a bizzare world where you will encounter...
-A bunch of backwoods farmers who happen to be lizards...
-A tribe of foul-mouthed giant bugs who worship a dead VW sedan...
-AN automated factory that can't decide whether to serve its customers-or kill them
Across this nightmare landscape-pursued by an avenging angel on a bicycle-one man makes a painful pilgrimage in search of the one who changed the world so drastically-the legendary, but very real, God of Wrath...
From the back cover of the 1983 Daw edition
PHILIP K DICK 1928-1982
"He is brilliantly inventive and gaiins access to imaginative realms which no other writer of SF has yet reached"
-Brian Stableford
DEUS IRAE
Set in a bizarre future America, you will encounter:
-A bunch of backwoods farmers who happen to be lizards...
-A tribe of foul-mouthed giant bugs who worship a dead VW sedan...
-AN automated factory that can't decide whether to serve its customers-or kill them
Across this nightmare landscape-pursued by an avenging angel on a bicycle-one man makes a painful pilgrimage in search of the one who changed the world so drastically-the legendary, but very real, God of Wrath...
From the back cover of the 2003 Vintage edition
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 array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.