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The Penultimate Truth

1964 novel by Philip K. Dick
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The Penultimate Truth

Summary

The Penultimate Truth is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (226 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Penultimate Truth authored Philip K. Dick[3].
  • The Penultimate Truth's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Penultimate Truth was published by Belmont Books[5].
  • The Penultimate Truth's genre is science fiction[6].
  • The Penultimate Truth's based on is recorded as The Defenders[7].
  • The Penultimate Truth's based on is recorded as The Mold of Yancy[8].
  • The Penultimate Truth's language of work or name is recorded as American English[9].
  • The Penultimate Truth's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • The Penultimate Truth was published on 1964[11].
  • The Penultimate Truth's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Penultimate Truth'}[12].
  • The Penultimate Truth's working title is recorded as {'lang': 'en-us', 'text': 'In the Mold of Yancy'}[13].
  • The Penultimate Truth's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'A fog can drift in from outside and get you; it can invade.'}[14].
  • The Penultimate Truth's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1980247', 'amount': '+29'}[15].
  • The Penultimate Truth's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "You're not going to. Because we will not allow you."}[16].
  • The Penultimate Truth's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[17].
  • The Penultimate Truth's form of creative work is recorded as novel[18].
  • The Penultimate Truth's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 813.54[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: adeaf02d-dd0b-439b-85af-ead0ed94af07[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Penultimate Truth authored Philip K. Dick[3]. It was published by Belmont Books[5].

Publication

The Penultimate Truth was released on 1964[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as American English[9]. Its genre is science fiction[6].

Why It Matters

The Penultimate Truth ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (226 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

literary work Philip K. Dick United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . In the Mold of 1964. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . In the Mold of 1964. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . In the Mold of 1964. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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    Copyright status → copyrighted
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    Country of origin → United States
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