The Man Who Japed
 The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The jape[s] or practical jokes of the novel begin with a statue's unconventional decapitation.The Man Who Japed was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-193 bound dos-à-dos with The Space Born by E. C. Tubb.