Radio Free Albemuth - Softcover

Dick, Philip K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679781374 ISBN 13: 9780679781370

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

‘An engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of hell’
Publishers Weekly

‘The most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet’
Rolling Stone

About the Author:

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679781374
• ISBN 13: 9780679781370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214