Radio Free Albemuth

Name: Radio Free Albemuth
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9781531835507

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/02/2016

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

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 Philip K. Dick

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dagio_maya

”Dentro di me l’immaginazione cancellò la realtà” Potrei quasi fare un copia e incolla di alcune considerazioni che scrissi a suo tempo nel mio commento ad Ubik oppure a La svastica sul sole.. La letteratura, lo sappiamo, offre una sua lettura del reale e, nella sua versione fantastica, spesso ne......more

Goodreads review by Stuart

Radio Free Albemuth: Divine messages via a pink laser from space Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Radio Free Albemuth was written in 1976 but only published posthumously in 1985. Even for Philip K Dick, this is a bizarre and partly deranged book. It’s a deeply personal autobiographical attempt......more