Título: Radio Free Albemuth
Autor: Philip K. Dick
Sinopse: Product Description 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. From Publishers Weekly Here is another of the unpublished novels science-fiction writer Dick left when he died in 1982.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 Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Inside Flap 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. Review [A]n engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of Hell. --Publishers Weekly Dick is entertaining us about…reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation….[He is] our own homegrown Borges. --Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Radio Free Albemuth”, de Philip K. Dick, publicado pela editora Grafton, em 1987 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Grafton
Páginas: 304
Ano: 1987
Edição: First Avon Printing
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 0586069364
ISBN13: 9780586069363
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Grafton convidam o leitor a explorar universos que transitam entre o fantástico e o futurista, com narrativas que mesclam suspense político, fantasia épica e ficção científica. O catálogo apresenta histórias densas, onde conflitos de poder se desenrolam em cenários que vão de cidades futuristas a reinos medievais, sempre com personagens envolvidos em dilemas morais e aventuras que desafiam o tempo e a realidade. Há obras com ritmo acelerado e tensão crescente, como thrillers de espionagem e assassinato, e outras que privilegiam a construção mitológica e o tom contemplativo, típico da fantasia celta. A diversidade das tramas sugere um equilíbrio entre narrativas mais narrativas e outras que exploram o imaginário de forma mais simbólica e reflexiva.
