Book Review + Podcast: Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K Dick

Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K Dick

Paperback, 240 pages

Published by Mariner Books (first published 1964)

I loved so much about this one, but it had a major flaw in the structure. Too much of the story focused on the wrong character in my opinion. I love the concept even if it is a bit outdated way to look at mental illness. This should make a fun episode of the Dickheads podcast.

Welcome to the Alphane Moon, a disputed territory currently held by the human race. A place where an individual can live in relative peace with like-minded individuals. And by 'like-minded' I mean 'share a psychosis.'

The boys disagree on a lot of parts of PKD's 14th published novel of divorce and mental illness costarring a psychic blob, a Hollywood showman/intergalactic spy, and a sadsack divorcee who writes propaganda speeches for the C.I.A. Plus: The intergalactic pitfalls of confusing Gannymedians and Alphanes. Everything is worse with Rob Schneider in it. And imagining J.G. Ballard's version of the novel.