Radio Free Albemuth

In his last published novel, Philip K. Dick produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. In the late 1960s a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed the nation in a war against un-American elements. A struggling science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying not to become one of the war's casualties. And this is increasingly difficult, since Dick's best friend is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also be God - an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President. 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 prankster-prophet.