This is a 1895 Bookclub Edition of Radio Free Albemuth, a dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, exploring themes of reality, paranoia, and theology through an alternate history of the United States. Written in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985, it is a semi-autobiographical precursor to Dick's renowned VALIS trilogy. 
 
The novel follows two friends living in an authoritarian version of the late 1960s America under the paranoid President Ferris F. Freemont. 
Nick Brady: A Berkeley record executive who begins receiving strange, prophetic transmissions from an extraterrestrial satellite named VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System).
Philip K. Dick: The narrator and Nick's friend, a struggling science fiction writer. He is initially skeptical but gets drawn into Nick's metaphysical experiences.
The plot: The messages from VALIS lead Nick to change his life and take a stand against the oppressive government, which is pursuing a non-existent revolutionary group called Aramchek. The story climaxes as the friends are targeted by the regime's secret police, and Nick uses his position in the music industry to subtly broadcast subliminal revolutionary messages to the masses.