Audiobook The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick in the ListenBook app
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Book description
In The Cosmic Puppets, Philip K. Dick drags the listener not just into a strange town, but into the hollow space between memory and reality-where the air feels thick with something unspoken and the familiar twists into the alien. This isn't just an audiobook; it's an auditory descent into a metaphysical maze, narrated with a hushed urgency that makes even the quietest moments pulse with tension.
Ted Barton, returning to his birthplace of Millgate, Virginia, expecting nostalgia, finds instead a town that never was-or perhaps, one that never should have been. The voice guiding us through this disquieting landscape doesn't simply tell the story-it hesitates where Ted hesitates, stumbles where he stumbles, and mirrors his growing dread as the world around him refuses to make sense. Each word seems chosen not for flair, but for weight, as though the narrator is feeling his way through a dream he can't quite wake up from.
Dick builds unease like a slow tide. The pastoral setting, which should soothe, instead prickles with wrongness. When Ted discovers he's been dead for decades in this version of Millgate, the revelation lands like a cold gust through an open window-sudden, disorienting, and impossible to ignore. The performance captures this beautifully, letting silence do the heavy lifting where needed, allowing the listener to lean into the discomfort.
What unfolds is more than a tale of cosmic manipulation or interdimensional meddling-it's a meditation on identity, memory, and the fragile thread that ties us to our own past. The audiobook format amplifies the psychological vertigo; without visual anchors, the mind reels more freely, caught in the same trap as Ted, unable to look away, unable to leave.
Dick's genius lies in how he uses the absurd-gods wrestling across dimensions, puppet strings pulling at human lives-to examine what is deeply, desperately human. And here, with the voice weaving through each surreal layer, that humanity isn't lost-it's laid bare. The Cosmic Puppets isn't just worth listening to; it's worth getting lost in.
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Edit book data: title, author, cover
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Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
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AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Listening to audio lectures
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
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Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
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