Clans of the Moon alphane

the Clans of the Moon alphane is a novel of Philip K. Dick published under the title Clans off the Alphane Moon in 1964.

Domestic fights on Earth

Chuck Rittersdorf is the poor guy in a pure state. Underpaid agent of the CIA, it works as programmer of " sims" (shows), electronic human forgeries. It is terrorized by its ex-wife Mary, psychiatrist tempting and ambitious, who is ready with very to make him pay a larger alimony. It is let engage like scenario writer-assistant of Bunny Hentman, celebrates comic television. To satisfy its two employment, it consumes illicit drugs anti-sleep, while binding friendship with an intelligent fongus of Ganymède, Lord Running Clam. He is unaware of that Bunny Hentman is actually a Espion system alphane… (see below)

Scenes of madness on Alpha-3-MR.-6

Alpha-3-MR.-6, the moon secondary of Alpha of the Centaur, was colonized by the Land ones which made a giant private clinic for mentally ills of it. The very long war which opposed the Earth to the insectoïdes Alpha involved the escape of the personnel. The psychopathe S, left with themselves, then formed their own company, divided into rival clans: Manses, brilliant and perverse maniacs; pares, which is surrounded by destroying security systems; Heebs, happy tramps who have of another richness only their visions…

The Earth wants to restore its authority on the Alphane Moon. It sends a mission under the authority of the Psychiatre Mary Rittersdorf. On board a solid bodyguard is, which, without the knowledge of all, is a " sim" the CIA actuated by Chuck Rittersdorf. And this one has good reasons to wish that its ex-wife not return alive from her voyage.

Does the labyrinth have an emergency exit?

The monitoring of the CIA is tightened on the organization of Bunny Hentman and its involuntary accomplice Chuck Rittersdorf. Will our anti-hero, helped by his friend fongus, escape his ex-colleagues? Will it join Bunny Hentman which prepares its escape towards the Empire alphane? Will Mary Rittersdorf manage to keep its reason in contact with insane of the Alphane Moon? An intrigue dishevelled in a company sick, anti-utopian, terribly worrying, especially perhaps because it resembles ours.

Extract

" - According to my theory, the various subcategories of mental disorder must be divided here into quite distinct classes, a little like the system of castes of old India. These people here, the hebephrenes, must be the equivalent of the untouchable ones. The maniacs must train the caste of the warriors without fear; one of highest.

- samurais, known as Mageboom. As in Japan.

- Yes, she agreed. The paranoiacs - makes the schizophrenes with paranoiac tendency of them - must constitute the leading class; they must have the responsibility of develop the political ideology and the social programs… they must have a general sight of the world. Simple schizophrenes… (It reflects:) They would correspond to the category of the poets, although some of them are undoubtedly religious visionaries - as owe the being unquestionable Heebs. Heebs, however, are undoubtedly inclined to produce saints preaching the asceticism, whereas the schizophrenes produce the dogmatic ones. Those which are afflicted with a schizophrenia with polymorphic tendency must be the creative members of the company, those which bring the novel ideas. (It tried to remember the other categories which could exist.) There can be presenting ideas survalentes, disorders psychotics which are advanced forms of a neurosis of the obsession-compulsion type, the so-called hoop nets diencephalic. These people must be the clerks and the employees of this company, the civils servant without any original idea. Their conservatism must counterbalance the radicalism of the polymorphic schizophrenes and thus ensure the stability of the société."

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