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Cover of Deus Irae, published by Doubleday in 1976.

Deus Irae is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1976. Deus irae means wrath of God in Latin. The name may be a play on Dies Irae, meaning Day of Wrath or Judgment Day. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (432x643, 560 KB) Cover from Roger Zelazny and Phillip K. Dicks Deus Irae, published by Doubleday in 1976. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (432x643, 560 KB) Cover from Roger Zelazny and Phillip K. Dicks Deus Irae, published by Doubleday in 1976. ... Doubleday is one of the largest book publishing companies in the world. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... . The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... The Day of Judgement from the centre panel of the Memling Triptych in Gdańsk. ...


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. This article is becoming very long. ...


Plot

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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 commission to paint a mural of Leuftufel, though nobody knows where Leuftufel lives, or what he looks like.


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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


 
 

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