PKD
VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterised by quasi-consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence. – Great Soviet Dictionary Sixth Edition, 1992
(VALIS, PKD)
If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader’s mind so that that mind, like the author’s, begins to create. Thus sf is creative and it inspires creativity […]. Hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create – and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness.
