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The World Jones Made
By Philip K. Dick
Originally published in 1956
Trade paperback published by Vintage
Currently available
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Plot Summary:
Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly
mad, but in a very short time he will rise from
telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an
entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see
the future -- a power that makes his life a torment --
his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make
people dream again in a world where dreaming has been
made illegal, even when the dream is indistinguishable
from a nightmare.
In Philip K. Dick's unsettling chronicle of the rise
and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a
novel that is as minutely realistic as it is
prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers,
and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives
us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.
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Reviews
"The World Jones Made shows a great author finding his feet. He's still playing here with some of the themes that will form the backbone of later novels...the characters are uniformly well depicted, and the familiar themes of powerlessness and paranoia are already evident. It's gritty, but it's not utterly bleak; it's outré, but not completely nuts. All in all, a very accessible Dick novel." Read
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John Toon, Infinity Plus, 2004
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