Radio Free Albemuth
Ratings15
Average rating3.6
15
Ratings15
Average rating3.6
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.
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I am a big Philip Dick fan. I think Man in the High Castle, Ubik and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are among the greatest science fiction novels. This book, in common with VALIS and Divine Invasion, is evidence of a mind that is disintegrating. It starts off promisingly, but soon degenerates into a paranoid fantasy that is part political, part religious and part science fiction. By halfway I'd started becoming disillusioned and it was downhill from there. Sad to see, as his career height was magic.
Series
3 primary books4 released booksVALIS Trilogy is a 6-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by Philip K. Dick, Tomasz Bieroń, and Филип Киндред Дик.
