Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K. Dick

Category: Novel, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Mental Illness Satire

Written by Philip K. Dick
Read by David Aaron Baker
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes, the hospital was left unguarded and the inmates set up their own society, made up of competing factions based around each mental illness. When Earth sends a delegation to take back the colony, they find enclaves of depressives, schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and other mentally ill people coming together to repel what they see as a foreign invasion.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his wife Mary are going through a bitter divorce, with Chuck losing everything. But when he is assigned to clandestinely control an android accompanying Mary to the Alphane moon, he sees an opportunity to get his revenge.

8 hrs and 33 mins
February 17, 2026