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If An Insane Asylum Was an Entire Planet

If An Insane Asylum Was an Entire Planet

Alienating the Audience

February 4, 202148m 39s

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Show Notes

In "Clans of the Alphane Moon" by Philip K. Dick, a planet is colonized as an insane asylum, then abandoned, so that its inmates develop their own society and cultures.

Tom Merritt, host of "Sword and Laser" joins to answer: what happens when pathologies become the basis of civilization, rather than its aberrations?

You can check out "Clans of the Alphane Moon" as well as the other books and films discussed on the show by going to Mightyheaton.com/goodscifi