RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH

Dick, Philip K.

ISBN 10: 0877957622 / ISBN 13: 9780877957621

Published by Arbor House, New York, 1985

About this Item

Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumously published draft of VALIS, which ultimately mutated into something quite different. The whole novel "is set in an alternate universe in which a certain Ferris F. Fremont, rather than Richard Nixon, was elected president in 1978. The two are not dissimilar, but Nixon's paranoia about domestic 'enemies' becomes Fremont's all-out campaign against a supposed conspiracy known as Aramchek." - Mackey, Philip K. Dick, p. 115. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 427-28. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #3. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the black background ink (press rollers; no loss of color) and lamination wrinkle to rear panel (manufacturing flaw, not abuse). (#168424).

Seller Inventory # 168424

Bibliographic Details

• Title: RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH
• Publisher: Arbor House, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877957622
• ISBN 13: 9780877957621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dystopia
  • Utopian Literature

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Synopsis

Describes how the life of Nicholas Brady is disrupted by messages from a space satellite and how he shares the problem with his friend Phil Dick, the author, who plays a major role

Reviews

Here is another of the unpublished novels science-fiction writer Dick left when he died in 1982. It recounts the friendship of two California men, Nicholas Brady, a record store clerk and later a record company executive, and Philip K. Dick, a writer. During the several decades spanned by the novel, America slides into fascism, particularly under the presidency of Ferris F. Fremont, who comes into office in 1969. Once entrenched, Fremont begins tossing dissidents into camps and in some cases executing them. Brady, meanwhile, has been receiving communications from a Godlike intelligence which he dubs Valis (an idea the author utilized previously in Valis). Valis guides Brady in the secrets of the universe, in the conduct of his life, and in a plot to bring down the monstrous Fremont, a cause to which Brady is finally martyred. This bleak political vision is given extra force by its autobiogrphical tone. Though not one of Dick's best novels, it is an engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of Hell. Foreign rights: Scott Meredith. January 8
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