VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is a near-omniscient, angel-like satellite that helps humans to overcome tyranny in Philip K. Dick's science fiction novels VALIS (1981) and Radio Free Albemuth (1985). In Radio Free Albemuth, it was placed into Earth orbit by a species of gaseous life forms from a planet orbiting Fomalhaut A (dubbed "Albemuth" in the novel). In VALIS, the creators of the spacecraft are a species of three eyed aliens from Sirius, said to be the gods descr