Tuesday, August 26, 2008  Philip K Dick - Radio Free Albemuth -
book review  On the surface, Philip K Dick's "Radio Free
Albemuth" is about as close to perfect sci-fi as you can get,
where a man communes with a being/beings from a parallel world
invading our planet.  But I had the same feeling of HORROR with
this as I had with THE COSMIC PUPPETS in that Dick has signature
moments of horror, the rats and the nature beast that Princess
Mononoke stole.  Radio Free Albemuth is set in a world where
other PKD novels have been set - a world of American domination
of its people, American repression of its ideals, an American
that is no longer part of the Constitution, a horror America.
Not necessarily Communist but certainly threatening to one's
civil liberties, threatening to one's belief systems and chosen
life style.  What does Alex Jones call it, "Land of the slave,
home of the coward."  Radio Free Albemuth echoes the threat of
corporate surveillance and mind control in books like FLOW MY
TEARS THE POLICEMAN SAID