Clans of the Alphane Moon
Clans of the Alphane Moon is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores mental illness and the definition of crazy. Based on Dick's 1954 short story "Shell Game", originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. This is the first hardcover edition published by Gregg Press in 1979. Frontispiece by Hannah Shapero. New introduction by Robert Silverberg. Octavo, bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Issued without a dust jacket.
Hardcover. First Hardcover Edition. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979. Levack 4i. ISBN: 0839825986. #10910.
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Clans of the Alphane Moon is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, written during one of his most prolific periods. Alpha III M2 is a former psychiatric institution located on a satellite moon inside the Alpha Centauri (“Alphane”) star system. Since being abandoned the inhabitants of the Alphane Moon have formed themselves into caste-like groups determined by their clinical diagnoses. There are the Pares, people suffering from paranoia; the Manses, people suffering from mania; the Skitzes, Heebs, and Polys, all suffering from different types of schizophrenia; and the Ob-Coms and the Deps, the obsessive compulsives and clinically depressed. Sent on an expedition with questionable motives to the Alphane Moon are the CIA agent, Chuch Rittersford, and his telepathic slime mold companion and advisor, Lord Running Clam.