RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH
by Dick, Philip K[indred]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16481)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Arbor House, [1985]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16481). Octavo, boards. Posthumously published draft of VALIS, which ultimately mutated into something quite different. The whole novel "is set in an alternate universe in which a certain Ferris F. Fremont, rather than Richard Nixon, was elected president in 1978. The two are not dissimilar, but Nixon's paranoia about domestic 'enemies' becomes Fremont's all-out campaign against a supposed conspiracy known as Aramchek." - Mackey, Philip K. Dick, p. 115. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 427-28. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #3.
Synopsis
Radio Free Albemuth is a novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985. Originally titled VALISystem A, it was his first attempt to deal in fiction with his experiences of early 1974. When his publishers at Bantam requested extensive rewrites he canned the project and reworked it into the VALIS trilogy.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16481
- Title
- RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH
- Author
- Dick, Philip K[indred]
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16481)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arbor House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1985]
- Keywords
- SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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