The World Jones Made Floyd Jones is a sullen malcontent, ungainly and quite possibly mad. But he can see exactly one year into the future. And this extraordinary ability ensures his spectacular rise from disgruntled carnival fortune-teller to charismatic demagogue, whipping up a population starved of ideals 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 and hermaphrodite sex performers in drug-fuelled nightclubs, Jones is a tragic leader. His limited precognition ultimately renders him helpless to fight against what he knows will happen.
Prophetic and unsettling, the chronicle of the rise and fall of a post-nuclear messiah is one of the very best of Philip K. Dick’s early novels. `The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world’ John Brunner
`Dick is entertaining us about ... reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation ... We have our own home-grown Borges’ New Republic
`Dick was SF’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst’ New York Daily News
`One of the most original practioners writing any kind of fiction’ The Sunday Times
Paperback - Gollancz (2003)
Cantata-140 It’s the year 2080, and Earth’s seemingly insurmountable overpopulation problem has been alleviated temporarily by placing millions of people in voluntary deep freeze. But in election year, the pressure is on to find a solution which will enable them to resume their lives. For Jim Briskin, presidential candidate, it seems an insoluble problem - until a flaw in the new instantaneous travel system opens up the possibility of finding whole new worlds to colonise.
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
Three Early Novels At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest sf writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. This book reprints those early titles. The Man Who Japed
Dr. Futurity
Vulcan's Hammer
Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of ht author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik in their quirky exuberance and originality.
The World Jones Made
The World Jones Made