Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780099214908
ISBN number: 0099214903
Label: Legend paperbacks
Manufacturer: Legend paperbacks
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: March 07, 1991
Publishing house: Legend paperbacks
Sale Popularity Level: 1975295
Studio: Legend paperbacks
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Others have said this is lesser Dick-- not so, really. I read all the biggies many years ago but couldn't find this at the time, and I've just now finished it. It's full of ideas, as are all Dick's novels, and worthy of much study and thought. Yes, it's an "aliens attack and endeavor to subdue Earth" novel, but it's atypical (and superior) due to Dick's odd and unique worldview. What a pleasure to enter his brain again-- all of his quirks are on view, with his enjoyable neologisms and snuff-taking and port-drinking protagonists fully engaged in a completely unpredictable plot. If you're a Dick fan, you've been here before and will enjoy the ride. If you're new to PKD, try it and see. You'll want to read more, as much to ty to figure out what made the author tick as to savor the intricate and neurotic works he wrote over the years. Dick was a singularity, often imitated and mocked, but ultimately a set of one. "The Ganymede Takeover" is a good read-- not first-class Dick, perhaps, but five-star SF.
PS: some of this is a bit un-PC, but sophisticated readers will have no problem with the racial stereotypes.
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A minor Dick novel of the late 60s, The Ganymede Takeover was written in collaboration with Ray Nelson, and is derivative of The Game-Players of Titan, a much better book, with the situation of evil telepathic aliens who have conquered Earth. Here the aliens are large worms, who despite their form have a weakness for human culture: one collects model airplanes, another named Mekkis develops an obsession with the work of psychologist Dr. Rudolph Balkani. Balkani's "oblivion therapy" involves sensory deprivation treatment and makes a schizophrenic of the chief female character, Joan Hiashi. It also short-circuits the Ganymedian Great Common to which Mekkis connected mentally. The reason for this devastating effect seems to be that the Nothingness at the basis of reality is too much for any mind, human or alien, to bear. Even in this slight novel, Dick's philosophical concerns with the nature of subjectivity and consciousness march right to the forefront.
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After reading a string of mostly top-notch PKD novels I was expecting the same from this but my expectations were only half-met. 'The Ganymede Takeover' is interesting and varied enough to get to the end without losing interest, but Phillip K Dick produces much better results on his own. Something seemed a little off with this novel to me and I think the two authors probably said "Hey, let's write a novel together" rather than "I've got this great idea for I novel, I need your help with this one". This is the very first book Ray Nelson was involved in, his only claim to fame prior to this was being the inventor of the propeller-hat.
If you're on a mission to read the entire Phillip K. Dick catalog I'd put this a long way down on the list, there are better PKD books out there to be read.
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Hello. My name is Albert Godphrey and I love Phillip K. Dick. Dick uses basic writing techniques for this book, yet something about it grasps me. He really gets deep inside the human mind and shows why we act the way we do. He shows that some people will never give up and they will do whatever they need to survive, yet it also shows the meek and the weak. This book is also humorus. I was cracking up when Dick made Percy X, the leader of a rebellion from an alien invasion of earth, used the mind machine to imagine killer girl scouts tearing apart the alien troops. Then he imagined killer boy scouts. Then the boy scouts raped the girl scouts! That was classic. The amount of time he put into this book is so obvious! He uses futuristic devises that we have now! Phillip K. Dick is amazing. My hands were literaly glued to this book. I couldn't put it down, I didn't sleep for 2 1/2 days because I was reading this. I really am glad that I met Phillip K. Dick before he died. I remember we listended to the clasical music together while we discussed his books. He was ingenius. The day he died, i cried. It was a sad day for science fiction lovers, for they lost the king... DAMMIT!!!! Not Elvis!!!!
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