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A review by incarnationblues
Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick
4.0
Memory is a funny thing. This book was only 35% similar to the incarnation I held of it in my memory.
The characters were all there, as was the setting… but the amount of page space occupied by the various characters was pretty skewed, and man I totally forgot most of the plot points. Which kind of makes sense given how convoluted a typical PKD book is.
So, yeah, typical PKD crazy ensues. There are crosses, triplecrosses and re-uncrosses both mental and physical (and maybe spiritual too, depending on how you look at things), giant schizophrenic hallucinations belching fire, prophets, mind reading slime molds, a girl who can rewind time for 5 minutes and aliens with license plates for names. Oh and marital drama and remote controlled androids and a hundred other odds and ends.
In short: all the stuff I love about classic sci-fi – especially with PKD’s paranoid twists.
If you check out the timeline of his works, you can see that it falls in the last third or so – closer to the “really weird shit” than his “less weird” (but still weird!) early works. It’s a nice mid-point I think – it was originally my favorite of his works, and I think it still is. Still, given how warped it was in my memory, I’m curious how the other books will fare.
The cover above is my version and it’s… well, it’s kind of accurate. I mean, there are a few scenes with guys in tanks.
I came across a couple other interesting covers (as there are bound to be with 50+ years of publication history):
Don’t get me wrong, the above is not a bad cover it’s just… I don’t… it has nothing to do with the book. I don’t know who that could possibly be. I’m guessing the artist was just given the title and ran crazy with it. Maybe they just got the words “clan” and “moon” stuck in their brain and couldn’t get past them.
I can’t decide if it’s better or worse than this one:
I mean. WHAT THE FUCK FISHHEAD MAN AND NAKED ALBINO CRONE-GIRL? In this book there were: humans, humanoid robots, weird bug aliens, slime mold aliens. That’s it. Another one where I’m really curious if the author read the book or if this is like some deep motherfuckin shit or something. Or maybe the artist was just high. There were, technically tanks and spaceships, so I guess he/she gets 2 points there…
Oh, right, the review:
FOUR STARS
Because it’s still a classic, and I still love it.
The characters were all there, as was the setting… but the amount of page space occupied by the various characters was pretty skewed, and man I totally forgot most of the plot points. Which kind of makes sense given how convoluted a typical PKD book is.
So, yeah, typical PKD crazy ensues. There are crosses, triplecrosses and re-uncrosses both mental and physical (and maybe spiritual too, depending on how you look at things), giant schizophrenic hallucinations belching fire, prophets, mind reading slime molds, a girl who can rewind time for 5 minutes and aliens with license plates for names. Oh and marital drama and remote controlled androids and a hundred other odds and ends.
In short: all the stuff I love about classic sci-fi – especially with PKD’s paranoid twists.
If you check out the timeline of his works, you can see that it falls in the last third or so – closer to the “really weird shit” than his “less weird” (but still weird!) early works. It’s a nice mid-point I think – it was originally my favorite of his works, and I think it still is. Still, given how warped it was in my memory, I’m curious how the other books will fare.
The cover above is my version and it’s… well, it’s kind of accurate. I mean, there are a few scenes with guys in tanks.
I came across a couple other interesting covers (as there are bound to be with 50+ years of publication history):
Don’t get me wrong, the above is not a bad cover it’s just… I don’t… it has nothing to do with the book. I don’t know who that could possibly be. I’m guessing the artist was just given the title and ran crazy with it. Maybe they just got the words “clan” and “moon” stuck in their brain and couldn’t get past them.
I can’t decide if it’s better or worse than this one:
I mean. WHAT THE FUCK FISHHEAD MAN AND NAKED ALBINO CRONE-GIRL? In this book there were: humans, humanoid robots, weird bug aliens, slime mold aliens. That’s it. Another one where I’m really curious if the author read the book or if this is like some deep motherfuckin shit or something. Or maybe the artist was just high. There were, technically tanks and spaceships, so I guess he/she gets 2 points there…
Oh, right, the review:
FOUR STARS
Because it’s still a classic, and I still love it.