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The World Jones Made

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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, hermaphrodite sex performers in drug-fuelled nightclubs, Jones is a tragic messiah.

His limited precognition renders him helpless because he cannot bring himself to fight against what he knows will happen ...

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Product Details
Gollancz
0575074574 / 9780575074576
Paperback / softback
813.54
09/10/2003
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
199 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Ace, 1956.
'Dick was sf's greatest extrapolator of modern angst' New York Daily News 'One of the two or three most important figures in 20th-century US sf' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 'Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers ... There's no pomposity in Dick's work, no falseness. When the moment comes, Dick can pull all the stops out and sound the big resonating chords, though calm, ironic understatement is his forte' Brian W. Aldiss 'The most consistently brilliant sf writer in the world' John Brunner 'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K. Le Guin 'One of the most original pract
'Dick was sf's greatest extrapolator of modern angst' New York Daily News 'One of the two or three most important figures in 20th-century US sf' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 'Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers ... There's no pomposity in Dick's work, no falseness. When the moment comes, Dick can pull all the stops out and sound the big resonating chords, though calm, ironic understatement is his forte' Brian W. Aldiss 'The most consistently brilliant sf writer in the world' John Brunner 'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K. Le Guin 'One of the most original pract FL Science fiction