{"product_id":"radio-free-albemuth","title":"Radio Free Albemuth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA philosophical science fiction novel from Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick, \u003ci\u003eRadio Free Albemuth\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary alternate history of a dystopian United States, full of the conspiracy theories and religious themes that became the foundation for his celebrated VALIS trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the late 1960s, and a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America into a vicious war against imaginary, internal enemies. Philip K. Dick, a struggling science fiction writer, is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties in this surreal police state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Dick's best friend, record executive Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence that may also happen to be God—an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the president. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuspenseful and darkly hilarious, \u003ci\u003eRadio Free Albemuth\u003c\/i\u003e cements Dick as the twentieth century's greatest prankster-prophet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An intense, often very moving book...touching on all the major Philip K. Dick themes.\"—\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip K. Dick","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53165141098787,"sku":"9780358449034","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780358449034.jpg?v=1741195818","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/radio-free-albemuth","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}