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Radio Free Albemuth (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperVoyager; Film tie-in ed edition (15 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006482856
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006482857
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,470 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of hell' Publishers Weekly 'The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet' Rolling Stone


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A preliminary to Dick's masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. Soon to be a major new film. As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars! ARAMCHEK! the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President's childhood home. ARAMCHEK! the name of the subversive society 'with no official membership' whose sole purpose is to overthrow the American government. ARAMCHEK! the word printed on a book which contains the President's signature -- a book in the hands of a Communist Party organiser. ARAMCHEK! the name of a woman who may hold the key -- and who has only weeks to live. Will the agents of the omniscient Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the seek-and-destroy tactics of President Ferris F. Freemont extend the mind-numbing grip of the Antagonist across the parameters of the free world? In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer. This prophetic novel of social control and political oppression is now to be turned into a major new movie starring Alanis Morrissette, which promises a provocative and edgy antidote to the summer blockbusters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The last novel of PKD -- one of the bests, 31 Dec 2000
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People who know something about PKD's life will understand this novel as partly an autobiographic novel: the main character resembles the writer himself (Phil) selling records having visions about transcendental phenomena and so on. The novel combines almost all the more important elements of his novels: similarly to The Scanner Darkly the story and the characters not too much sci-fi-like, similarly to The Man in the High Castle, the sci-fi is an alternative history of the US, the ET thing which transmits messages is from the novel Valis and the whole paranoid scizophrenic athmosphere is well known from all the PKD novels. However, the message of the novel is very positive and the whole story is told in a somewhat nostalgic and touching manner. I hardly can decide whether this feeling is related to the "last novel" biographical fact and influenced by it or truly emanates from the novel. My best idea to let you decide this: if you like others from PKD you will certainly love this novel.
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2.0 out of 5 stars One just for the die-hard fans, 5 Jan 2002
Now there's a strong element of paranoia in much of Dick's writing, especially the later novels, but in this one it really does reach epic proportions.

This is clearly very close to autobiography and as such, the real Dick fans such as me find it interesting.

For anyone else, it will, I'm afraid, prove incredibly dull.

Read all the other PKD books before you bother with this one!

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