Radio Free Albemuth

About “Radio Free Albemuth”

In 1969, the United States is caught in a paranoid war against imagined internal enemies, led by a ruthless president. A struggling science-fiction writer, Philip K. Dick, tries to survive the escalating fascism. His friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, receives transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence called Valis, which urges him to overthrow the president. The novel explores the intersection of reality, politics, and science fiction in an alternate history of America.