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The Cosmic Puppets
- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- Narrator
- David Aaron Baker
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 9 May 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. But upon entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, Ted is distraught to find that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind - and never did. He also discovers that in this version of Millgate, Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old.
Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape.
Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities, but before long, he finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley…
Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for best novel
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- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- Narrator
- David Aaron Baker
- Duration
- 5 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004192151
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
Synopsis
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. But upon entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, Ted is distraught to find that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind - and never did. He also discovers that in this version of Millgate, Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old. Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape. Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities, but before long, he finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley…Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for best novel
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