Radio Free Albemuth

8/10

I am a big Philip Dick fan. I think Man in the High Castle, Ubik and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are among the greatest science fiction novels. This book, in common with VALIS and Divine Invasion, is evidence of a mind that is disintegrating. It starts off promisingly, but soon degenerates into a paranoid fantasy that is part political, part religious and part science fiction. By halfway I'd started becoming disillusioned and it was downhill from there. Sad to see, as his career height was magic.