Radio Free Albemuth

by Philip K. Dick, Jeff Cummings (Read by), Patrick Lawlor (Read by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455814756
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	11/02/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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.

Jeff Cummings, AudioFile Earphones Award winner for Melina Marchetta’s Finnikin of the Rock and Alan Hruska’s Wrong Man Running, brings over twenty-five years of acting experience to his narration, including a seven-year run as a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and appearances at major regional theatres across the country. Jeff cites James Mason’s reading of Doyle’s The Lost World as a major inspiration to his work as a narrator.

Patrick Lawlor is a classically trained stage actor, with over two hundred seventy-five audiobook narrations to his credit, including works by T. Jefferson Parker, W.E.B. Griffin, and Robert Crais. He has done countless plays, readings, and radio plays throughout the country. He can be seen in several feature films and television series.

Editorial Reviews

Here is another of the unpublished novels science-fiction writer Dick left when he died in 1982. It recounts the friendship of two California men, Nicholas Brady, a record store clerk and later a record company executive, and Philip K. Dick, a writer. During the several decades spanned by the novel, America slides into fascism, particularly under the presidency of Ferris F. Fremont, who comes into office in 1969. Once entrenched, Fremont begins tossing dissidents into camps and in some cases executing them. Brady, meanwhile, has been receiving communications from a Godlike intelligence which he dubs Valis (an idea the author utilized previously in Valis). Valis guides Brady in the secrets of the universe, in the conduct of his life, and in a plot to bring down the monstrous Fremont, a cause to which Brady is finally martyred. This bleak political vision is given extra force by its autobiogrphical tone. Though not one of Dick's best novels, it is an engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of Hell. Foreign rights: Scott Meredith. January 8

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

An intense, often very moving book . . . touching on all the major Philip K. Dick themes.”—Philadelphia Inquirer —

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