Radio Free Albemuth

Science fiction novel, 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.

Year

1985

Language

English

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Editions

16

Reader rating

3.8 / 5 (5)

Pages

288

ISBN

9780358449034

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