The Ganymede Takeover in Philip K Dick

Aug 23, 2020 David Agranoff rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The world has been conquered by space worms and humanity's last hope lies with a psychic revolutionary hiding from the law in the mountains of the worst place on earth, Tennessee. The Ganymede Takeover is the first of only two novels Philip K. Dick coauthored and the only one (of a planned 3) to be written with Ray Nelson. Plus: The guy who invented the propeller hat. Privileged modern babies. And Overbaked Br ...more

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Jan 30, 2013 Jack Stovold rated it liked it · review of another edition

My Philip K. Dick Project

Entry #37 - The Ganymede Takeover (written with Ray Nelson) (written 1964-1966, published June 1967)

Well, here we are. After mentioning Ganymede about a thousand times in his short stories and novels, Dick has finally gone all out and we have an actual gosh-darn book with Ganymede in the title, and a full-scale Ganymedean invasion. (As an aside, my favorite Ganymedean will most likely always be Lord Running Clam, the telepathic slime-mold and all-around nice guy from Cl ...more

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Dec 25, 2018 Paul rated it liked it

Like a lot of Dick books this dives straight into the action from page one, and for the first half of the book the introduction of a lot of characters make it difficult to follow at times. There are some very interesting ideas explored in this story, and it probably needs to be re-read to fully understand everything.

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