The Cosmic Puppets: Library Edition

from mikemillertime

A nice but simple sci-fi read, exemplifying many typical Dick themes of madness, reality and the divine. One of his easier and more straightforward works, given the earliness of his career.

from RandyStafford

My reaction to reading this novel in 2005. An adequate and rare novel length Zoroastrian fantasy by Dick. The use of a Virginia milieu was interesting. By coincidence, this book also uses the idea of buildings that are either fake or mutable in their temporal identity just like Dick's Ubik which ...

from datrappert

I haven't actually read a lot of Dick's work, but I imagine this is considered a fairly minor piece. It is a short novel about a man returning to a town that is mysteriously different from what he remembered. Sounds familiar, right? There have been a lot of stories like that, and I'm not sure how...

from PDCRead

Ted Barton decides on a whim to return and visit the town of his birth, Millgate. When he gets there he finds it it completely different to how he remembered it.Non of the streets have the same name, the shops are different, and no one remembers him. A little further investigation reveals that so...

from iftyzaidi

This is a true oddball of a book from Philip K. Dick. One of his earlier, minor works, it manages to cram into its short span a truly wild ride of a tale. The story starts with Ted Barton, driving through Baltimore on vacation, deciding to make a quick visit to the small town in the Appalachian m...