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World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk
Floyd Jones is a malcontent pre-cog with the ability to see one year into the future. As such, he lives the same period twice over.
The basic premise of this book is very sound as well as interesting. The problem tends to stem from Dick throwing in tangent plots of mutants bred to live on Venus - back in 1956, the planet was thought to have a poisonous atmosphere but possible to support life - and the life of Cussick, who discovered Jones. Granted these threads make more
sense at the end but too much time is spent diverting to them. What is singularly
lacking is not seeing more of how Jones grows and declines with his knowledge.
It seems odd that a character as potentially interesting as Jones ends up nearly
side-lined in a book about his career. In that respect, this book is also a demonstration that even one of the best SF writers had as much teething problems as any of the neo-writers coming out today. For that reason alone,
it should be included on your reading list as a reminder that all writers have
to start somewhere. It might not be his best work but is certainly worth reading. GF
Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - November 2003
Told By The Dead by Ramsay Campbell The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman Robota by Doug Chaing and Orson Scott Card Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hearn Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion by Larry Nemecek The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror The Binder's Road by Terry McGarry Project Orion - The Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson The Word And The Void by Terry Brooks Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine April/May 2003 Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack Smallville Soundtrack (The Talon Mix) Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds Crossroads Of Twilight by Robert Jordan Mediations On Middle-Earth by Karen Haber and John Howe
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This
is one of Philip Dick's earliest published works. As such, it has
to be expected that there were likely to be some rawness compared
to his later books.
He
stirs the interest of the secret police and in return incites a revolt and revolution
that sets himself as the leader of the world when 'drifters' - single-cell protoplasms
land on Earth. 'Course, he sees all of this happening but can do nothing about
changing events other than ensuring that he does what he foresees. Seeing only
one year into the future isn't quite enough to control events and his failure
is risking invasion and genocide.
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