An 8 year old boy first has to deal with a simulacrum of his father. With two of his schoolmates he finds out that there are more of them growing in the garden ...
© 1954 by Fantasy House, Inc., renewed 1982. Reprinted by permission of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc; received there on 1953-07-21.
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| December 1954 |
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1954 | Fantasy House, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 105 |
| April 1956 |
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Fiction, #29 | OPTA | MAGAZINE | 44 |
| 1957 |
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Univers de la science fiction | Club des libraires de France | Anthology | 369 |
| November 1959 |
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A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One | Doubleday | Anthology | 245 |
| February 1960 |
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A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume One | Doubleday / SFBC | Anthology | 245 |
| May 1960 |
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S-Fマガジン 1960年05月号, #4 | 早川書房 | MAGAZINE | 77 |
| 1964 |
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Les 20 meilleurs récits de science-fiction | Marabout | Anthology | 193 |
| 1965 |
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The Unhumans | Popular Library | Anthology | 103 |
| 1966 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Doubleday | Anthology | 307 |
| October 1966 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Doubleday | Anthology | 307 |
| 1972 |
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Themes in Science Fiction: A Journey Into Wonder | McGraw-Hill | Anthology | 119 |
| 1973 | Science Fiction 1 | Houghton Mifflin | Anthology | ||
| 1974 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Orbit | Anthology | 307 |
| March 1975 |
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Social Problems Through Science Fiction | St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 161 |
| 1976 | Tomorrow's Children | Compton Russell | Anthology | 307 | |
| 1976 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Orbit | Anthology | 307 |
| March 1977 |
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The Best of Philip K. Dick | Del Rey / Ballantine | Collection | 231 |
| August 1977 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Orbit | Anthology | 307 |
| November 1977 |
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Sirius, #17 | Vjesnik | MAGAZINE | 109 |
| 1978 |
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Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology | Harper & Row | Anthology | 185 |
| March 1978 |
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The Best of Philip K. Dick | Del Rey / Ballantine | Collection | 231 |
| June 1978 |
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Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology | Harper & Row | Anthology | 185 |
| 1979 |
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The Worlds of Science Fiction | Allyn & Bacon | Anthology | 127 |
| 1979 |
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The Worlds of Science Fiction | Allyn & Bacon | Anthology | 127 |
| 1981 | Science Fiction: Masters of Today | Richards Rosen Press | Anthology | 125 | |
| 1981 |
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Tomorrow's Children | Orbit | Anthology | 307 |
| January 1981 |
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Die besten Stories von Philip K. Dick | Moewig | Collection | 168 |
| April 1983 |
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Histoires d'envahisseurs | Le Livre de Poche | Anthology | 197 |
| May 1987 |
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The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) | DAW Books | Anthology | 289 |
| May 1987 |
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The Father-Thing | Underwood-Miller | Collection | 101 |
| May 1987 |
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The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) | DAW Books | Anthology | 289 |
| May 1987 |
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The Father-Thing | Underwood-Miller | Collection | 101 |
| November 1989 |
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The Father-Thing | Gollancz | Collection | 101 |
| 1990 | Szívélyes Fahrenheit 17 sci-fi remekmű | Maecenas Könyvkiadó | Anthology | 332 | |
| 1990 |
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Fenix, V1 #3, 1990 | Radwan | MAGAZINE | |3 |
| September 1990 | Urban Horrors | Dark Harvest | Anthology | 87 | |
| September 1990 |
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Urban Horrors | Dark Harvest | Anthology | 87 |
| November 1990 |
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The Father-Thing | Grafton | Collection | 134 |
| July 1991 |
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Second Variety | Citadel Twilight | Collection | 101 |
| October 1991 |
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Science Fiction I | Hatier | Anthology | 87 |
| April 1993 |
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Urban Horrors | DAW Books | Anthology | 109 |
| June 1993 |
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Nursery Crimes | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 485 |
| 1994 | The Father-Thing | HarperCollins (UK) | Collection | 134 | |
| April 1995 |
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Between Time and Terror | Roc / New American Library | Anthology | 224 |
| January 1996 |
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Nouvelles 1952-1953 | Denoël | Collection | 556 |
| February 1997 |
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A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 | MJF Books | Anthology | 166 |
| February 1997 |
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The Philip K. Dick Reader | Citadel Twilight | Collection | 101 |
| August 1997 |
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Le formiche elettriche | Mondadori | Collection | 43 |
| November 1997 |
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Planète cauchemar | Hachette | Anthology | 9 |
| 1998 | Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology | HarperCollins | Anthology | ||
| May 1998 |
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The Father-Thing | Voyager / HarperCollinsPublishers | Collection | 134 |
| September 1998 |
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The Young Oxford Book of Aliens | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 47 |
| August 1999 |
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The Father-Thing | Millennium | Collection | 101 |
| 2000 |
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Das Vater-Ding | Haffmans | Collection | 163 |
| September 2000 |
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The Young Oxford Book of Aliens | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 47 |
| October 2000 |
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My Favorite Horror Story | DAW Books | Anthology | 12 |
| December 2000 |
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1950年代―初めの終わり | 河出書房新社 | Anthology | |
| January 2002 |
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Alien Stories 1 | Oxford University Press | Anthology | 30 |
| May 2002 |
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Second Variety | Citadel Press | Collection | 101 |
| July 2002 |
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Der unmögliche Planet | Heyne | Collection | 272 |
| 2003 |
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The Father-Thing | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | 101 |
| 2004 |
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Der unmögliche Planet | Heyne | Collection | 272 |
| February 2004 |
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Paycheck | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | 141 |
| February 2004 |
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Paycheck | Gollancz | Collection | |
| February 2004 |
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Paycheck: Die Abrechnung | Heyne | Collection | 177 |
| February 2004 |
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Paycheck et autres récits | Gallimard | Collection | 221 |
| May 2004 |
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My Favorite Horror Story | BP Books / ibooks | Anthology | 17 |
| August 2004 |
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Pago para esquecer | Editorial Presença | Collection | |6 |
| October 2004 |
|
Paycheck | Gollancz | Collection | 141 |
| 2007 |
|
Der unmögliche Planet | Heyne | Collection | 272 |
| 2007 |
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My Favorite Horror Story | MJF Books | Anthology | 10|10.1 |
| March 2007 |
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Human Is? | Gollancz | Collection | 228 |
| November 2007 |
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My Favorite Horror Story | ibooks | Anthology | |
| January 2008 |
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Das Vater-Ding | Zweitausendeins | Collection | 165 |
| September 2008 |
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Human Is? | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | |228 |
| April 2010 |
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Paycheck | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | |
| July 2012 |
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Upon the Dull Earth | Subterranean Press | Collection | 123 |
| August 2012 |
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Upon the Dull Earth | Subterranean Press | Collection | 123 |
| August 2012 |
|
Das Vater-Ding | Zweitausendeins | Collection | 165 |
| July 2014 |
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Total Recall Revisited: Die besten Stories | Fischer Taschenbuch | Collection | 206 |
| November 2014 |
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人間以前 | 早川書房 | Collection | 297 |
| December 2014 |
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人間以前 | 早川書房 | Collection | |
| December 2015 |
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Upon the Dull Earth | Brilliance Audio | Collection | |123 |
| January 2016 |
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The Philip K. Dick Reader | Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing | Collection | 101 |
| April 2017 |
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Second Variety and Other Classic Stories | Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing | Collection | 101 |
| September 2017 |
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Volume One | Gollancz | Collection | |98 |
| September 2017 |
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Volume One | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | 98 |
| November 2017 |
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Električni snovi | Hangar 7 | Collection | 235 |
| November 2017 |
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Električni snovi 1 | Hangar 7 | Collection | 235 |
| November 2017 |
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Collection | 98 |
| November 2017 |
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Collection | |98 |
| March 2018 |
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Electric Dreams: Die 10 Stories der Erfolgsserie | Fischer Taschenbuch | Collection | 108 |
| March 2018 |
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Sonhos elétricos | Editora Aleph | Collection | |
| March 2020 |
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Sonhos elétricos | Editora Aleph | Collection | |
| January 2022 | The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick | Collection | |63 | ||
| September 2023 |
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume Two | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | |560 |
| September 2023 |
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume Two | Gollancz / Orion | Collection | 521 |