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Time Out of Joint
By Philip K. Dick
Originally published in 1959
Trade paperback published by Vintage
Currently available
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Plot Summary:
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's classic
depiction of the disorienting disparity between the
world as we think it is and the world as it actually
is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn't know
that. He thinks it's 1959. He also thinks that he
served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet
little community, and that he really is the world's long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests.
It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues
his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.
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Reviews
"This is a very strong book by Dick. The plot and characters are creative and well-developed. The setting and situations leave lots to the reader's imagination and employ strong elements of paranoia, schizophrenia and hallucination. The main character is placed in a universe where even the laws of time are controlled by an outside source. Written in 1959, Time Out Of Joint is a great example of Dick's earlier work. " Read
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Jason Koornick, philipkdickfans.com, 2000
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"Ragle Gumm is a perfectly realised example of the classic Dick protagonist; the paranoid man who discovers he has every reason to be paranoid because he inhabits a world where people know more about him than he does and reality itself is fluid. " Read
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Martin Lewis, SFSite.com, 2003
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