"Jacket illustration by Ron Walotsky."--Bookjacket.
Gutter code, Q20, on page 213, in SFBC printing indicates a printing date in May 1986.
Variant printing also issued by the Science Fiction Book Club in 1986.
It is 1969, and a paranoid president has convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. As the country slides into fascism, a struggling science-fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. Meanwhile, Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from a God-like extraterrestrial intelligence, which he dubs Valis, who apparently wants him to overthrow the president.