An edition of The world Jones made (1968)

The world Jones made

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An edition of The world Jones made (1968)

The world Jones made

1st Vintage Books ed.
  • 4.00 ·
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  • 5 Have read

The World Jones Made is a 1956 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, examining notions of precognition, humanity, and politics. It was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-150, bound dos-à-dos with Agent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair.

The World Jones Made is set in the year 2002 AD. On a then-future post-apocalyptic Earth, there was a devastating conflict that involved the use of atomic weapons. Many American cities were targeted, and the People's Republic of China (and Soviet Union) also collapsed, leading to the imposition of a Federal World Government (Fedgov).

In this particular dystopia, Relativism (a political theory having little to do with Einstein) emerged as the governing political orthodoxy. Relativism is said to be a moral and ethical philosophy that states everyone is free to believe what they wish, as long as they don't make anyone else try to follow that principle. Relativism has become established law after the destructiveness of the war unleashed by clashing ideologies. (However, dissidents from that orthodoxy do end up in forced labor camps). This sacrosanct principle is challenged by a man named Floyd Jones, whose assertions about the future prove correct.

Relativism enables legal consumption of drugs like heroin and marijuana, as well as watching live sex shows with hermaphrodite human mutants. Due to the mutagenic effects of radiation from wartime nuclear exchanges, mutants earn their living within the entertainment industry, although one group has been subjected to deliberate genetic engineering, which later enables them to settle (an inhabitable) Venus.

The novel addresses questions of Jones's agenda and trustworthiness as well as the decidedly ambiguous benefits of individual precognition.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
199

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1993, Vintage Books
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March 1988, Bart Books
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Edition Notes

"Originally published in paperback by Ace Book, New York, in 1956"--T.p. verso.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3554.I3 W67 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
199 p. ;
Number of pages
199

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1743439M
ISBN 10
0679742190
LCCN
92050644
Library Thing
128331
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216361

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