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'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction’ Sunday Times
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'Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise' Michael Moorcock
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No man in their rightful mind would kill their wife miles from home.
Chuck Rittersdorf has recruited some robot help, and now, in the madness and dysfunction of the Alphane moon, there seems no better place to carry out his cruel plans unless he too is part of a much larger conspiracy.
Alpha Centauri, a star within the closest star system to earth, has several orbiting moons, among which is Alpha III M2. On this remote moon, a colony, originally set up to provide respite for the mentally ill is about to become the focus of a secret invasion plan.
Among them is Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, who has decided to kill his own wife via a remote control simulacrum. He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others both witting and unwitting.
But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on the Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personal revenge plans begin to awry as the nature of reality itself is called into question in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.
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After an interstellar war that ended 15 years ago, the world has forgotten this alphane moon and its inhabitants. Alpha III was considered as a giant hospital for mentally ill people by the Earth; now maniaco-depressives, schizophrenics and obsessive have founded cities and try to leave peacefully. But Alphans and Earth want to retake possession of this forgotten moon for obscure political reasons.
If you liked EYE IN THE SKY, a novel published 7 years before by PKD, you will appreciate CLANS OF THE ALPHANE MOON and its numerous points of views. The same events are described and analyzed by the different characters and one is lead to understand very soon that there is no objectiveness in Reality and that the actions of so-called sane people often obey to rather perverse motivations. Anyway, if you're a Philip K. Dick fan, you already know by now that there is no such thing as Reality !
A book to discover.
The usual Dickian themes are here in force - paranoia of the CIA; vast, tangled conspiracies controlling every aspect of life; scepticism of Communism but a greater fear of American cold war tactics - but it is also a good example of one of Dick's rarely commented on themes, fear and scepticism of womankind. Philip K. Dick's world is populated by two highly negative archetypes of modern woman; the shallow and fickle nymphomaniac, who act as literary eye-candy and usually betray the hero; and the manipulative, domineering and sadistic emancipated woman, usually portrayed as a businesswoman, politician or Freudian psychologist (in this case, the latter). This makes Dick something of a twentieth century August Strindberg, and as with all of Dick's observations, we at first put them down to egocentric paranoia, and only later think about them seriously.
This book isn't on the same level as Dick's more famous novels, but nonetheless, the idea of a society ruled by lunatics is an original and witty premise, and that alone makes this book worth reading.
I particularly liked the clan names - Obcoms, Mandeps, and so forth. :) More creative and specific than the commonly-used acronyms - OCD, for example, is also the name of a law-firm.
But I'm rambling. :) 'Tis a wonderful book, and though the idea of the inmates overruning the asylum has been done to a horrible death, Philip K. Dick puts his usual twist(s!) on things and makes a truly unique book out of a tired old theme :)
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