
I can't tell if this is a Bluejay special edition or a "Masters of Science Fiction" series edition. The portrait of PKD is clearly taken from this picture:

That's PKD on the right (is that a SUEDE Members Only jacket!?) looking a bit like an aged Dr Johnny Fever standing next to Ridley Scott. My question is what's up with this cover? Is Dick supposed to be a character posing along with these other characters? (the insectoid snout creature is a great touch -- I forget are there aliens in Clans of the Alphane Moon?) Is that Philip K Dick, the author, posing with his far-out creations?
This cover is post-1982 as it hypes Dick as the author of "Blade Runner." I wonder if Dick appeared on any cover art before the rumors of his erratic behavior and rampant drug use were widely known. A portrait of Dick appeared in his introduction to the counter culture: Paul Williams' 1977 Rolling Stone Article "The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick." In Williams' article, PKD is identified with drugs and more importantly as a "crazy" arguing on behalf of lunatics everywhere. At the end of Clans of the Alphane Moon the crazies are diagnosed as sane and the doctors are diagnosed as schizophrenics.
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I own a copy of the book with that cover.
I too own a copy of this edtion of Clans of the Alphane Moon. It is a very bad cover indeed, but what can you do? I much prefer some of the Vintage publishing editions.
I once bought a hundred PKD titles on ebay for $5. They're amazing, but I don't have this one.
Hey David,
Good buy from Ebay. Just wanted to say that I dig your site. I just read Clans just a few months ago. If there was a an Instectoid then I believe it was a fairly minor role. In the apartment that Chuck Rittersdorf moved into after separating from his wife, there was a variety of non-Terrans. That's about all I know.
There are insectoids aliens un "Clans..." they're a political pressure for the autocracy of the alphane moon and the wackos inside.
By far the best Clans cover is the '72 Ace version
http://www.pkdickbooks.com/LargeCovers/SFNovels/ClansAlphaneMoonAce1972.jpg
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