Title attributed to Andre Norton

Sargasso of Space / The Cosmic Puppets

& Writing under pseudonym Andrew North

& ACE Double Book containing Sargasso of Space (1955) & The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick (1957)

Bibliography ~

¯ (1957) * Published by ACE Double, PB, # D-249, $0.35, 127+192pp ~ cover of Sargasso of Space by Ed Emshwiller ~ cover of The Cosmic Puppets by Ed Valigursky ~ Title is misspelled on the spine “Sagasso”

Synopsis for Sargasso of Space ~

Wiser and richer space traders turned down this cosmic pig-in-a-poke, but the crew of the Solar Queen couldn’t afford anything more secure. And their trip to Linbo to see what they had got proved that the newly discovered world lived up to its ominus name in every way! The free-traders of the Solar Queen win exclusive rights to all tradable goods discovered on the planet Limbo. The crew arrives to find the planet's surface charred, signs of life sparse. Worse yet, a strange pulse emanating from the planet itself may keep the Queen from lifting off. The traders find a secret valley with life, but others may still lurk in rocky caves below. The traders must solve the mysteries of Limbo if they hope to escape the planet, let alone come away with some saleable goods.

Synopsis for The Cosmic Puppets ~

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 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.

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