Radio Free Albemuth

Philip K. Dick

HarperCollins, 1999 - Fiction - 286 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.

About the author

Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, The Man in the High Castle (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Radio Free Albemuth
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999
• ISBN: 0006482856, 9780006482857
• Length: 286 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Political; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction