{"id":107,"date":"2004-11-04T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=107"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T13:48:48","slug":"clans-of-the-alphane-moon-by-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/clans-of-the-alphane-moon-by-philip-k-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"Clans of the Alphane Moon, by Philip K. Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0375719288\/>Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian bought this on our layover in Chicago on the way out, mostly because his other choice of reading material was a mathematical optics book.  I don&#8217;t know what he was thinking.  Anyway, I was running out of reading material on the way back, so I borrowed it from him, and traded him the novel I&#8217;d been reading.  Like most Philip K. Dick material, this book is really weird.  I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s even worth describing.  Here, I&#8217;ll quote the back cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they&#8217;ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward.  Nor do they suspect that Chuck&#8217;s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun.  How things come to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of <i>Clans of the Alphane Moon<\/i>, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nUm.  Yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link Brian bought this on our layover in Chicago on the way out, mostly because his other choice of reading material was a mathematical optics book. I don&#8217;t know what he was thinking. Anyway, I was running out of reading material on the way back, so I borrowed it from him, and traded him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}