The World Jones Made - Philip K. Dick

The World Jones Made was the second of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novels, originally published in 1956, and, coincidentally, the second I read. While he’s undoubtedly best known for his later Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – the novel which became the film Blade Runner – I can’t comment on his progression as a writer, merely what I thought of this book. I do know enough of Dick’s work to know that the near-future post-apocalyptic setting would become something of a staple in his writing. For some, it may take some getting used to a sci-fi novel now set in our past (c2002), but it seems Earth was radically shaken by a ...  Read the complete review