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Steve Joyce asked this question about Radio Free Albemuth:
OK. I really enjoyed RFA but thoroughly disliked VALIS...I read it long ago and hated it so much so that I have vowed never to read it again. (I believe that VALIS is the only PKD novel for which I have ever had a negative reaction.) Anyway, my question is this: - are the two that dissimilar? If so, how so? ...or ... - have my tastes changed that much (obviously, feel free to speculate here)?
Jamie Flower Radio Free Albemuth is more of a straight forward sci-fi dsytopian and lacks the schizophrenic narrator of Valis and all the weird meta stuff and cryp…moreRadio Free Albemuth is more of a straight forward sci-fi dsytopian and lacks the schizophrenic narrator of Valis and all the weird meta stuff and cryptic ramblings with phrases phrases like "The Empire never ended" that Valis had.(less)
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Radio Free Albemuth
by Philip K. Dick
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