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

The Cosmic Puppets (1957)

The Cosmic Puppets was published in 1957 in an Ace Double edition, back to back with The Sargasso of Space of Andrew North. This underrated novel of Philip K. Dick, which is more fantasy than SF, was kept out of the publishing loop for more than 25 years between its original publication in 1957 and the first re-publication in 1983. The Cosmic puppets, written in 1953, was first published as a novella under the title "A Glass of Darkness" in the 12/1956 issue of Satellite before it was expanded into a novel and published as a book.

New: Foreign editions of Philip K. Dick books.

American Editions

  • Ace 1957, D-1249, 127 pages, 35c, back to back with Saragasso of Space by Andrew North
  • Berkley 1983, 186 pages, $2.50
  • Vintage 2003, 160 pages, $11.00, trade paperback
  • Mariner 2012, 204 pages, $13.95, trade paperback

British Editions

  • Granada 1985, 143 pages, £1.95, paperback
  • Severn House 1986, 143 pages, $8.50, hard cover
  • Grafton 1987, 143 pages, £2.50, paperback
  • Voyager 1998, 143 pages, £7.99, trade paperback
  • Gollancz 2006, 144 pages, £6.99, paperback
  • Gollancz 2015, 144 pages, £6.99, paperback

Cover Gallery

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Ace, 1957Berkley, 1983Grafton, 1985Severn House, 1986Voyager, 1998
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Vintage, 2003Gollancz, 2006Mariner, 2012Gollancz, 2015

Foreign Editions

LES PANTINS COSMIQUES LES PANTINS COSMIQUES LES BRACONNIERS DU COSMOS LES BRACONNIERS DU COSMOS
bulgaria france france france france
1994 1984 1991 1998 2005
LES PANTINS COSMIQUES KOSMISHE PUPPEN UND ANDERE LEBENSFORMEN A KOZMOSZ BABJAI LA CITTA SOSTITUITA LA CITTA SOSTITUITA
france germany hungary italy italy
2014 1986 1998 1962 1975
LA CITTA SOSTITUITA LA CITTA SOSTITUITA LA CITTA SOSTITUITA LA CITTA SOSTITUITA la cita sostituita
italy italy italy italy italy
1986 1994 1994 1999 2011
KOSMICZNE MARIONETKI KOSMICZNE MARIONETKI MARIONETAS COSMICAS
japan japan poland poland portugal
1984 1992 1990 1998 1993
MYNECOS COSMICOS
russia spain
1966

Related Stuff

Saragasso of Space Glass of Darkness
Back cover of the Ace Double edition A Glass of Darkness - Satellite Dec. 1956