About “The Owl in Daylight”
The Owl in Daylight is an unfinished novel by Philip K. Dick, written during the last year of his life in 1982. He had received an advance from a publisher and was working toward a deadline. After his death, his estate explored the possibility of another writer completing the book using his notes, but this was not possible because Dick had not provided a formal outline. Dick compared the novel to Finnegans Wake, indicating its complexity and experimental nature. The idea for the story was influenced by an entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica about Beethoven, traditional concepts of the human heaven, and the Faust legend. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)