Time Out of Joint in Philip K Dick

Jul 24, 2019 Karl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: gregg_press-own

"Time Out of Joint" was first published by Lippincott in hardcover - 59-7775, in 1959, running 221pp, and sold for $3.95, when they were going to start a science-fiction line.

Dick’s fee was $750.

Mr. Dick says of the book in an interview with Charles Platt - " I wrote TIME OUT OF JOINT in the 1950s, before I had even heard of LSD. In that book a guy walks up to a lemonade stand in the park, and it turns into a slip of paper marked Soft Drink Stand, and he puts the slip of paper in his pocket. Fa ...more

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Sep 07, 2018 David Agranoff rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bizarro, political-science-fiction, time-travel, alternate-history, paranoia, philip-k-dick, multi-verse-fiction

Wow this book starts off Slooooooow. But the final 60 pages redeemed it for me. As always with PKD books I reverse the right to change my ranking after researching the book and recording the podcast. Review/ podcast coming later this month on Dickheads Podcast. It is not one of my favorites but it is one of his best...

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UPDATED for a re-read 5/1/2025. I liked this a thousand times more this time. ...more

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Dec 05, 2009 Simon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-masterworks, sf

Although many people say this book inspired the film "The Truman Show", Expect far more than that in this book. Ragle Gum is not merely another Truman Burbank. He is contained in a world of illusion not for the purposes of keeping others entertained, he has something dreadfully important to do, something somehow wrapped up with the daily puzzle he solves in the newspaper.

This book is about turning around the perception of the protagonist (Ragle Gum) and that of the reader again and again. Is Rag ...more

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Jun 20, 2014 Alex DiDonato rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

The makers of the Truman Show and the Matrix owe the PKD estate money. Enjoyed this very much. More than other earlier works. I can't believe this was written in 1959! Ding an Sich! ...more

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Sep 03, 2009 James rated it liked it

This is just okay as far as Dick is concerned. Better than a lot of other stuff in the world, but not so great compared to everything else he has ever written. Some of the most interesting stuff was sort of underexplored.

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Aug 05, 2011 Themistocles rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi, p-k-dick

Dick comes out in real force to explore his favorite topics of shifting realities, dystopian futures and loss of perception. A rather early, but fascinating novel.

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