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October 05, 2004
BROADCAST 01 extras
Radio Free Albemuth is a novel that was published "posthumously" by PKD, or "newly discovered" as this edition claims. Either description only makes the following story even more scary. At the end of this book Philip K Dick (appearing as himself) finds himself a prisoner of the Aramcheck/Fascist Organization. Vivian, one of the Fascists comes to him with a proposition:
"We will keep you alive, Phil; we will release books under your name which we will write. For several years we have been preparing them; they already exist. Your style is easy to imitate. You will be allowed to speak in public, enough to confirm them as your books. Or shall we shoot you?" "Shoot me," I said. "you bastards." "The books will be released," Vivian continued. "In them you will slowly conform to establishment views, book by book, until you reach a point we can approve of. The initial ones will still contain some of your subversive views, but since you are getting old now it won't be unexpected for you to mellow."
LISTEN to me and Josh Glenn talk about my theory that the bad hollywood movies ARE in fact the fake fascist Philip K Dick books! Josh also tells the story about what happened when Hollywood offered Dick a pile of cash to make his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" disappear !!!
fascist? 
fascist?
Posted by bw at October 5, 2004 12:55 AM