Deus Irae

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Deus Irae is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1976. Deus irae means God of wrath in Latin. The name is a play on Dies Irae, meaning Day of Wrath or Judgment Day.

Dick began the book but realized he didn't know enough about its central theme — namely Christianity — to finish it, so he asked Zelazny to collaborate on it with him. It reportedly took 12 years to write.

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Following a devastating nuclear war, the fallout of which has caused mutations to the majority of the population, a new religion has been founded with Carleton Leuftufel, the man who created and detonated the bomb, as its deity. The new religion is anger-driven, in comparison to the remnants of the meek Christian Church, and it is from this that the book gets its name. Tibor McMasters, an armless, legless artist has been commissioned to paint a mural of Leuftufel, though nobody knows where Leuftufel lives, or what he looks like.

[edit] External links

• Description on the official Philip K. Dick web site

Books by Philip K. Dick

Gather Yourselves Together | Voices From the Street | Vulcan's Hammer | Dr. Futurity | The Cosmic Puppets | Solar Lottery | Mary and the Giant | The World Jones Made | Eye in the Sky | The Man Who Japed | A Time for George Stavros | Pilgrim on the Hill | The Broken Bubble | Puttering About in a Small Land | Nicholas and the Higs | Time Out of Joint | In Milton Lumky Territory | Confessions of a Crap Artist | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike | Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | The Man in the High Castle | We Can Build You | Martian Time-Slip | Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | The Game-Players of Titan | The Simulacra | The Crack in Space | Now Wait for Last Year | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Clans of the Alphane Moon | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The Zap Gun | The Penultimate Truth | Deus Irae | The Unteleported Man | The Ganymede Takeover | Counter-Clock World | Nick and the Glimmung | Ubik | Galactic Pot-Healer | A Maze of Death | Our Friends from Frolix 8 | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | A Scanner Darkly | Radio Free Albemuth | VALIS | The Divine Invasion | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer