A prophetic and unsettling chronicle detailing the rise and fall of a post-nuclear messiah, by the author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT
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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- Authors:
- Dick, Philip K
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780575098985
- Number of Pages:
- 208
- Publication Date:
- 14/10/2010
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co
- Year Published:
- 2010
- Publication Date:
- 14/10/2010
- Imprint:
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780575098985