The Cosmic Puppets
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · July 17, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A vanished sense of home opens into a reality-bending mystery with cosmic stakes.
- Themes
- Changed reality, Identity and death, Supernatural conflict
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, The Occult & Supernatural, Fantasy
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Start with this bookAbout this book
Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for a vacation, but when he gets there, he is shocked to discover that the town has utterly changed. The stores and houses are all different and he doesn’t recognize anybody. The mystery deepens when he checks the town’s historical records . . . and reads that he died nearly twenty years earlier.
Continue reading
As he attempts to uncover the secrets of the town, Barton is drawn deeper into the puzzle, and into a supernatural battle that could decide the fate of the universe.
Unfamiliar Ground
A vanished sense of home opens into a reality-bending mystery with cosmic stakes.
Come here for
- The eerie pull of a hometown that no longer feels like home
- A mystery that widens from local history to the fate of the universe
Expect
- A supernatural puzzle with an increasingly uncanny edge
- A compact blend of small-town unease and cosmic conflict
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi | 78% |
|---|---|
| The Occult & Supernatural | 58% |
| Fantasy | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Urban Fantasy
- Fantasy Adventure
- Literary Fiction
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- Women Detectives
- The Occult & Supernatural
- Sci-Fi
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Authors
- Philip K. Dick
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- July 17, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Changed reality · Identity and death · Supernatural conflict
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy