{"product_id":"radio-free-albemuth-uncorrected-proof-annotated-inscribed-by-michael-bishop","title":"Radio Free Albemuth, Uncorrected Proof, Annotated\/Inscribed by Michael Bishop","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Arbor House, 1985. Uncorrected proof, inscribed and annotated by sci-fi author Michael Bishop (Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas). Original red printed wrappers; front cover with art by Wolotsky and typed proof details, spine lettered in black. Octavo. 207 pages (not numbered in print, instead, in pen). Many annotations and underlining, well-read, minor wear, first dozen pages slightly bent at the bottom corner. Overall, good\/very-good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRadio Free Albemuth is the precursor to, perhaps Dick's most inspired works, the Valis trilogy. This is the uncorrected proof of said novel, given out before the book's official publication. This copy specifically was given to Michael Bishop, who inscribed the title page: \"For Robert, This is a Dick novel that I particularly enjoyed, as my cover quote for it indicates, Michael Bishop\". Further inside, Bishop underlines specific passages and at times rewrites them in quotes. Notice the annotation on page 137: \"It is in the field of science fiction that they [the authorities] look for political material.\" The brackets do no not appear from passage that Bishop pulled from, and is one of the most important additions in his annotations. As, in 1987, just two years after this uncorrected proof's shown date, Bishop will write his own inspired novel (Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas), which is concededly seeded by Bishop's aforementioned annotation. The novel, written, of course, using similar reality-bending and will-questioning themes found in all of Dick's works, tells the story of Richard Nixon serving a fourth presidential term and consequently outlaws Philip K. Dick and the author's works... works of science fiction directly become political material, and prohibited [by the authorities]. Radio Free Albemuth itself tells a similar story, one of which involves tyrannical president, Ferris F. Fremont, who is considerably a thinly veiled Nixon figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBishop's novel becomes a finalist as Best SF Novel for the 1988 Locus Award, and nominated for Best Science Fiction Novel for the 1989 Arthur C. Clark award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yester","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60350393286942,"sku":"UN-0035","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/radio-free-albemuth-uncorrected-proof-philip-k-dick-edited-by-writer-michael-bishop-extremely-rare-1727.jpg?v=1792248202","url":"https:\/\/fromyester.com\/products\/radio-free-albemuth-uncorrected-proof-annotated-inscribed-by-michael-bishop","provider":"Yester","version":"1.0","type":"link"}