Science Fiction Novels

Blade Runner Clans of the Alphane Moon The Cosmic PuppetsCounter-Clock WorldThe Crack in Space Deus Irae The Divine Invasion Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dr. Bloodmoney Dr. Futurity Eye in the Sky Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Galactic Pot-Healer The Game Players of Titan The Ganymede TakeoverLies, Inc. The Man in the High Castle The Man Who Japed Martian Time-Slip A Maze of Death Nick and the Glimmung Now Wait for Last YearOur Friends from Frolix 8 The Penultimate Truth Radio Free Albemuth A Scanner Darkly The Simulacra Solar Lottery The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Time Out of Joint The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Ubik The Unteleported Man VALIS Vulcan's Hammer We Can Build You The World Jones Made World of Chance The Zap Gun

Solar Lottery /World of Chance (1955)

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Solar Lottery is the first novel published by Philip K. Dick. It was published in the USA in 1955 back to back with The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett in an Ace Double edition. In 1956 it was published in England in a hard cover edition with the title World of Chance with a slighlty revised text. A comparison of the two texts by Gregg Rickman has been published by the Philip K. Dick Society (Newsletter #21).


American Editions

  • Ace 1955, 188 pages, 35c, cover by Valigursky, back to back with The Big Jump (Leigh Brackett), paperback
  • Ace 1959, 188 pages, 35c, cover by Valigursky, paperback
  • Ace 1968, 188 pages, 50c, cover by J. Gaughan, paperback
  • Ace 1970, 50c, paperback [listed in the Phil Stephensen-Payne and Gorson Benson J. bibliography but I have never seen it]
  • Ace 1975, $1.25, paperback
  • Gregg Press 1976, 2330-4, 188 pages, $9.50, hard cover, illustrated
  • Collier Nucleus 1990, 029125-6, 188 pages, $3.95, paperback
  • Collier Nucleus 1992 , 023621-2, 200 pages, $9.00, trade paperback
  • Vintage 2003, 208 pages, $12.00, trade paperback

British Editions

  • Rich & Cowan 1956, 160 pages, hard cover
  • UK Science Fiction Book Club Edition 1957, 160 pages, hard cover
  • Panther 1959, 156 pages, paperback
  • Arrow 1972, 188 pages, 30p, paperback
  • Arrow 1979, 188 pages, 90p, paperback
  • Arrow 1987, 188 pages, £2.50, paperback
  • Legend 1990, 188 pages, £3.50, paperback
  • Gollancz 2003, 192 pages, £6.99, paperback

Cover Gallery

Ace, 1955 Rich and Cowan, 1956 SFBCE, 1957 Ace, 1959 Panther, 1959
Ace, 1968 Arrow, 1972 Ace, 1975 Gregg Press, 1976 Arrow, 1979
Arrow, 1987 Legend, 1990 Collier Nucleus, 1990 Collier Nucleus, 1992 Gollancz, 2003
Vintage, 2003

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What the Quizmaster Took by Gregg Rickman is a comparison between the text of Solar Lottery and the World of Chance, the British edition of the same novel. The original text of Solar Lottery has been edited down in World of Chance but it also contains text that was deleted from an original Solar Lottery manuscript, entitled Quizmaster Take All. The additional text can be found mostly in chapter two.
Back cover of 1955 the Ace Double edition Illustration of the Gregg Press edition