Radio Free Albemuth (Audiobook)

from DanielSTJ

This was a great Philip K. Dick novel! I was astounded that this was not published, in some form, during his lifetime. All of Dick's idiosyncrasies and the best aspects of his fiction are here: the paranoia, the sci-fi, the drugs-- everything. The ideas that he infuses through his writing serve t...

from CliffBurns

Some folks found RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH a rehashing of the VALIS novels but I disagree. This is one of the more humane and intelligible of PKD's later novels and I would place it among his finest efforts. A good intro to his odd oeuvre...

from railarson

In 1974, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick had what he would come to understand as a religious experience, or more specifically, a Platonic anamnesis-a loss of forgetfulness. Triggered by exposure to an ichthys, what is commonly known as a "Jesus fish," he had a flash of the continued existen...

from omphalos02

Dick's last book, and unusual as he himself is a character in it, and not a small one. He narrates the first and third sections of the book. Some wonderful stuff, and some inconsistant plotting with the "theories" that Phil and Nick Brady are constantly revising.

from danconsiglio

One of Dick's "Look at me!!! I'm freakin' crazyyyyyyy!!!!!!" books. Conspiracy theories make me happy.