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Radio Free Albemuth

by Philip K. Dick

A fractured America, messages from beyond

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A fractured America, messages from beyond

Set in a late-1960s alternate United States, the novel brings political repression and extraterrestrial communication into the same speculative frame. A science fiction writer tries to survive a paranoid police state, while his friend, a record executive, receives transmissions from an intelligence that may be divine and appears to call for the president’s overthrow. The premise connects conspiracy, state power, religious possibility, and the uncertainty of interpreting messages from beyond. Its alternate-history setting gives those questions a distinctly political dimension, while the link to Dick’s VALIS trilogy places the book among works that explore overlapping religious and speculative ideas.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in alternate-history science fiction and dystopian political settings.
  • Readers drawn to fiction that combines conspiracy themes with questions of religious belief and extraterrestrial intelligence.

Themes

Political repression and state powerConspiracyReligious belief and extraterrestrial intelligenceAlternate history

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Book overview

A philosophical science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth is a visionary alternate history of a dystopian United States, full of the conspiracy theories and religious themes that became the foundation for his celebrated VALIS trilogy.

It is the late 1960s, and a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America into a vicious war against imaginary, internal enemies. Philip K. Dick, a struggling science fiction writer, is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties in this surreal police state.

Meanwhile, Dick's best friend, record executive Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence that may also happen to be God--an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the president.

Suspenseful and darkly hilarious, Radio Free Albemuth cements Dick as the twentieth century's greatest prankster-prophet.

"An intense, often very moving book...touching on all the major Philip K. Dick themes."--Philadelphia Inquirer
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