Radio Free Albemuth

Product Description Philip K. Dick s impassioned final novel is a wild and visionary alternate history of the United States. It is 1969, and a paranoid president has convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. As the country slides into fascism, a struggling science-fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war s casualties. Meanwhile, Dick s best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence, which he dubs Valis, who apparently wants him to overthrow the president. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science-fiction writer. Review [A]n engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of Hell. --Publishers WeeklyDick is entertaining us about…reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation….[He is] our own homegrown Borges. --Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic About the Author PHILIP KINDRED DICK (1928 1982) is mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to dozens of published novels, he wrote over 120 short stories, many of which appeared in science fiction magazines. The popular films Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report are based on his stories. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America series.