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"The whole world was living a lie..."
"Men and Machines go Berserk in a Crazy World of Their Own Making"

1st.EDITION: Belmont, pb, 92-603, Sep 1964, 174pp, $0.50, (?)
UK 1st.: Cape, hb, 61158-5, Jun 1967, 254pp, 25/- (?) {Levack: "Bound in purple paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. No date on the title page. 'First published in Great Britain 1967' on the copyright page.}

OTHER ENGLISH EDITIONS:

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  Penguin, pb, 003105-7, May 1970, 221pp, 6/- (Franco Grignani)

• Leisure Books, pb, 285NK, 1975, 174pp, $0.95 (photo)

• Panther, pb, 04787-5, Nov 1978, 207pp, 95p (Peter Goodfellow)

• Dell, pb, 16926, Feb 1980, 238pp, $1.95 (Corben)

• Panther, pb, ?, 1984, ?, ? (?)

• Bluejay, tp, 1984, 201pp, $5.95 (Barclay Shaw)

• Carroll & Graf, pb, 493-4, Jun 1989, 220pp, $3.95 (?) [+K121]
• Carroll & Graf, pb, 493-4, 1990, 220pp, $3.95 (?) {2nd}
• Grafton, pb, 21030-X, Oct 1992, 240pp, L4.99 (Chris Moore)

FOREIGN EDITIONS:

• La Tribuna, pb, La Bussola 12, 1966, 272pp, Lit.600, (Erberto Tealdi)  {tr. into Italian by Mauro Cesari as LA PENULTIMA VERITA}{Levack: "SFBC.' "Paperback with stiff covers and with the front and back covers folded over as in a dustjacket."}
• Goldmann, pb, 0112, 1970, ?, DM2.80 (?){tr. into German by Tony Westermayr as ZEHN JAHRE NACH DEM BLITZ}
• Laffont, Ailleurs et Demain, pb, 32, 1974, ?, ? (?) {tr. into French by Alain Doremieux as LA VERITE AVANT-DERNIERE}
• Ficcao Cientifica, pb, FC74, c1975, ?, ? (?) {Portuguese as A PENULTIMA VERDADE}
• Goldmann, pb, 0112, 1975, ?, ? (?){tr. into German as ZEHN JAHRE NACH DEM BLITZ}

• J'ai Lu, pb, 910, 1979, ?, ?, (?) {tr. into French by A. Doremieux as LA VERITE AVANT-DERNIERE}

• Nord, pb, 25, 1981, 210pp, Lit.4000 (Michelangelo Miani) {tr. into Italian   by Mauro Cesari as LA PENULTIMA VERITA}
• Meulenhof, pb, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? (?) {tr. into Dutch as UUR VAN DE WAARHEID}
• Baste-Lubbe, pb, 21177, 1984, ?, ? (?){tr. into German as ZEHN JAHRE NACH DEM BLITZ}
  

• "Kannon" and "Kibor" Companies, Kiev, hb, ?, 1992, ?, ? (?) {tr. into Russian} Includes three novels: The Penultimate Truth The Game Players of Titan The Zap Gun

  {For the best bibliographic info in French goto: www.multimania.com/ggoullet/pkdick/frames.html Thanks for the cover pix, Gilles}

In Joseph Adams' ears the professional smooth voice whispered, "At this spot, at this moment, the deal was hatched which was to decide the future fate of mankind down unto generations yet unborn."

  The first book of Phil's which I read (which sold me on him as an author), is THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH, and as such I will always love it. -- Gregg Rickman, CA

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{PKD had a story on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, 3 Nov 1991}:

{... ...} The PKD piece is by Richard Bernstein {...}

Bernstein, after being intrigued by "the conceptions behind the movies inspired by Dick's books," was unable to find a copy of ANDROIDS or "We Can Remember It..." and ended up instead with THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH, of which he says, "The story is told in a gritty, technobabblish sort of noir prose, stripped of sentiment, blunt, disabused, a bit reminiscent of William Burroughs and also of Dick's fellow Californian Raymond Chandler... This is good stuff, I thought, good enough to count Dick among those in the pantheon of the good bad writers..."

{... ...}

"I've lived six hundred years, Foote; I know when it is and isn't necessary to kill."

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