The World Jones Made
$31.17
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2011
Summary
Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly and quite possibly mad, but he really can see exactly one year into the future. And this talent means that in a very short time he rises from being a disgruntled carnival fortune-teller to convulse an entire planet. For Jones becomes a demagogue, whipping up the ideal-starved population into a frenzy against the threat of the ‘drifters’, enormous single-cell protoplasms that may be landing on Earth soon.
But, in a world of engineered mutants, hermaphrod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575098985 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575098988 |
| Author: | Philip K. Dick |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 132mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A spectacular, brim-full grab bag of ideas * Infinity SF *
Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation … We have our own home-grown Borges * New Republic *
If it is ideas you want then Philip K Dick is the author to read * Vector *
Dick was SF’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst * New York Daily News *
One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction * Sunday TImes *
Philip K. Dick
Philip K Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, ‘Beyond Lies the Wub’ in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
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