THE GANYMEDE TAKEOVER
Back covers
1967 Ace edition
The worm-kings of Ganymede had not suspected there was other intelligent life in the solar system until a space probe bounced down on their surface. But that was enough to whet those super-beings' appetites for conquest. After their takeover of the Earth, however, it turned out that these unruly Earth people presented a number of unpredictable problems. And they soon learned that their primary troubles were coming from such a mixed bag as Percy Y, a fanatic guerrilla leader, Dr. Balkani, an anti-social scientist, Joan Hiashi, a psychedelic folk singer, and a mysterious television personality nobody could get their hands on at all. THE GANYMEDE TAKEOVER is an idea-apage action novel up to the best standards of Philip K. Dick.
1977 Ace edition
In their lust for power, the worm-kings of Ganymede had conquered Earth... now they had to rule it. But the superbeings found that they had to regulate an unusually troublesome and unpredictable planet. How could such an inferior people create so many problems? How could a race be so unteasonable? And how would the victors hold what they had won? ..I regard Philip Dick as a major novelist.... In the next decade or so, Phil's multiplex view of the world-his ability to see and deal with five contradictory realities at once-may become a prerequisite to sane survival." -Paul Williams, in ROLLING STONE"
From the back cover of the 1971 Arrow edition
The three guerillas made a raid for food and supplies. The defenders kept them off with lasers. So they used the stranse new weapons that they. had found. The illusion "machines. ,They worked well. Twenty-four phantom men who fought like veterans, helped to carry the captured supplies into the mountains.
Later they conjured up a complete army of illusions: ~iant vampires. man-eating plants, Valkyries, cannibal children.
The trouble was, when they switched off the machines: the phantoms didn't goaway....
From the back cover of the 1987 Arrow edition
Earth has been taken over by a strange a lien force - creatures whose instinct for survival overrides any human resistance. Then a vital weapon - with the power of electronically warping the mind-falls into the hands of a terrori st grou p still strong enoug h to oppose the a I iens. A weapon so powerful that it cannot be controlled. The control of Earth is in the balance- and the balance is a terrifyingly precarious one.