Radio Free Albemuth

Philip K. Dick

Arbor House, 1985 - Fiction - 214 pages

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 a God-like extraterrestrial intelligence, which he dubs Valis, who apparently wants him to overthrow the president.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 14
• Section 3: 29

About the author

Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1928, Dick worked in radio and studied briefly at the University of California at Berkeley before embarking on his writing career. His first novel, Solar Lottery, was published in 1955. In 1963, Dick won the Hugo Award for his novel, The Man in the High Castle. He also wrote a series of futuristic tales about artificial creatures on the loose; notable of these was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was later adapted into film as Blade Runner. Dick also published several collections of short stories. He died of a stroke in Santa Ana, California, in 1982.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Radio Free Albemuth
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Publisher: Arbor House, 1985
• ISBN: 0877957622, 9780877957621
• Length: 214 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Political; Fiction / Science Fiction / General