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"Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you’ve ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."—Rolling Stone
Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he’s never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.
Existential science fiction by the author of Do Androids Dream Oof Electric Sheep?
Anonymous
Posted Thu Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2007
'haunting' is word used too often.--every piece of art with polish, every work capable of mustering emotion, seems to have this word attributed to it. these attributions are often false. yet with phil dick's 'time out of joint', 'haunting' is the only word we're capable of whispering through breathless lips. it swam in my head for days, a wonderful song scoring my thoughts. it's just so damn subtle! the entire story's the twist, and dick unfolds it slowly, carefully, uncommon when compared to his other works. and despite the flawed (and apparently rushed) ending, it deserves a solid '5'.
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Posted Tue Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2000
Raggle Gumm is a simple man whose hobby of solving the daily news-paper puzzle 'Find the Martian' earns him a steady living. Unfortunately, he finds out that there is 'more' to the puzzle that he and others don't know. As with many of Philip K. Dick's novels, they explore the 'nature of reality'.
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"Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you’ve ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."—Rolling Stone
Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers ...