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The Little Movement

Philip K. Dick

First published November 1952
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A toy soldier sets out to help his people take over the world by controlling children.

According to Ray Lovell this was Philip K. Dick's first sale, although not his first publication. According to Philip K. Dick's story notes, collected in the Notes section of The Collected Stories Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub, his first sale was "Roog," though not his first published story.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1952 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1952 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 3
1955 Cover A Handful of Darkness Rich & Cowan Collection
October 1963 Cover Eine Handvoll Dunkelheit Moewig Collection 35
April 1965 Cover Eiland des Todes ...und andere Utopia-Kurzgeschichten Pabel Anthology 16
May 1967 Cover Fiction, #162 OPTA MAGAZINE 48
October 1967 Cover Urania #473 Mondadori MAGAZINE 32
June 1978 Cover A Handful of Darkness Gregg Press Collection 96
September 1981 Cover Eine Handvoll Dunkelheit Moewig Collection 55
June 1982 Cover The Eureka Years Bantam Books Anthology 207
June 1984 Cover Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick Southern Illinois University Press Collection
February 1986 Cover Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick Southern Illinois University Press Collection 1
May 1987 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Underwood-Miller Collection 19
May 1987 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Underwood-Miller Collection 19
November 1988 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Gollancz Collection 19
April 1990 Cover The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford Citadel Twilight Collection 19
May 1990 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Grafton Collection 37
November 1990 Cover Memoria totale Mondadori Collection 7
1993 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy / HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 37
June 1994 Cover Le presenze invisibili. Volume primo Interno Giallo / Mondadori Collection 64
October 1994 Cover Nouvelles 1947-1952 Denoël Collection 48
1998 Cover Und jenseits — das Wobb Haffmans Collection 32
August 1999 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Millennium / Victor Gollancz Collection 19
2000 Krótki, szczęśliwy żywot brązowego oxforda Prószyński i S-ka Collection 30
July 2002 Cover The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford Citadel Press Collection 19
September 2003 Cover Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Collection 19
January 2008 Cover Und jenseits — das Wobb Zweitausendeins Collection 34
January 2011 Cover The King of the Elves Subterranean Press Collection 29
January 2011 Cover The King of the Elves Subterranean Press Collection 29
August 2012 Cover Und jenseits — das Wobb Zweitausendeins Collection 34
January 2013 Cover Le dernier des maîtres Gallimard Collection 7
June 2014 Cover Krótki szczęśliwy żywot brązowego oksforda Dom Wydawniczy Rebis Collection 61
August 2014 Cover Beyond Lies the Wub Gateway / Orion Collection |19
December 2015 Cover The King of the Elves Brilliance Audio Collection |29
December 2015 Cover The King of the Elves Brilliance Audio Collection |29
July 2016 Cover Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Collection
January 2022 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Collection |4
September 2023 Cover The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume One Gollancz / Orion Collection 23
September 2023 Cover The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume One Gollancz / Orion Collection |19