By Philip K. Dick
On a planet run by means of escapees from a psychological establishment, the medical professionals who arrive to revive order could be the craziest of all.
For years, the 3rd moon within the Alphane process was once used as a psychiatric medical institution. but if warfare broke out among Earth and the Alphanes, the clinic was once left unguarded and the inmates arrange their very own society, made from competing factions established round each one psychological ailment. whilst Earth sends a delegation to take again the colony, they locate enclaves of depressives, schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and different mentally unwell humans coming jointly to repel what they see as a overseas invasion. in the meantime, again on the earth, CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his spouse Mary are facing a sour divorce, with Chuck wasting every little thing. but if Chuck is assigned to clandestinely keep watch over an android accompanying Mary to the Alphane moon, he sees a chance to get his revenge.
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