Radio Free Albemuth
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,...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679781370 (0679781374)
Publish date: April 14th 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Space,
Speculative Fiction,
Politics,
Dystopia
I know, for me Dick is always the best, but I loved too much this novel
This book is probably the most bizarre book I have read. It is a mixture of gnosticism, Christian mysticism, science fiction, extreme paranoia, and dystopianism. The only people who would want to read this would be extreme Philip K. Dick fans, which, although I enjoy some of of his works, I am not o...
This novel was published posthumously, set from a completed and corrected manuscript that Dick left to a friend. It contrasts starkly with the completely niave prose of Dick's early work, the author being so technically assured as to even change narrators in mid sentence...twice.In a typically craz...
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