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The World Jones Made (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)


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"The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation -- this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges."

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic -- Review

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"The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation -- this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges."

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (June 29, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679742190
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679742197
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #725,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Deserves more credit., February 8, 2000
By Guy Salvidge (GREENWOOD, WA AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews
People are generally harsh in consigning 'The World Jones Made' to stand beside truly awful novels like 'Dr. Futurity' and 'Vulcan's Hammer.' This novel is better than that. WJM is an early novel, and it is, as Patricia Warrick says, 'rough in parts.' Despite this it is full of excellent ideas, like the genetically engineered Venusians (no one knew what Venus was really like in 1956), the 'drifters' and the use of relativism for a world government. There are some pulpy ideas, like Jones' ability to see one year into the future, but PKD even manages to put a new spin on this, showing Jones' agony at experiencing the first year of his death in the last year of his life.

All right, so the plot is hollow, the characters brittle, and the writing style pedestrian. But the essence of things to come in PKD's career is here. WJM is vastly superior to earlier works like Solar Lottery and The Cosmic Puppets. It is still in print, even after 40+ years.

WJM doesn't really deserve 4 stars, maybe 3.5. I like it partially because most people hate it, and I think it deserves more credit than it is afforded.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Compelling in spite of a mushy middle, April 22, 2005
By E. VONROTHKIRCH (Garland, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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The World Jones Made has a wonderful Twilight Zone vibe to it--Jones can see the future, but for him it's like living in the past. He also suffers from the Cassandra Complex; Nobody will believe his predictions until the future comes to pass. An array of interesting characters struggle in a world that swings from extreme to another. Philip K. Dick does a wonderful job (philosophically at least) demonstrating how ideologies come full circle. The plot is compelling until the middle, where it sidetracks into the mushy terrain of romantic drama with the leading guy & lady. This is not to say sci-fi couldn't better represent human relationships--it certainly could, a point Philip K. Dick made himself in an interview featured in The Shifted Realities of Philip K. Dick. The problem in The World Jones Made is that much of the dramatic tension between the protagonist and his wife is saved until the dead middle of the story, at which point Philip unfortunately slows down the pacing by making the foray into romantic drama. However, the story picks up the pace again towards the end, hammering a tense climax with an ironic twist. Pacing issues aside, an excellent story filled with interesting ideas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a brief history of the world Jones made, December 29, 2002
By "shringeri" (Iowa City, IA USA) - See all my reviews
I must disagree with those who say this is an immature creation of PKD. Although a disjointed read in places (and his better stuff tends to be), conceptually it is one of his best. Structurally, it is fantastic: there are at least 4 microcosms in this book (including our solar system), each of which is planned out by someone or something, each recapitulating the other levels of the novel. And despite the planning, and in Jones' case, the actual foreknowing of events, one of the major premises of the story is the same as in other PKD novels: the inherent meaningfulness of human striving, for good or for ill.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas in a convetional sci-fi world.
I agree with the three star reviewers about this book.

Clearly there are some interesting ideas that can be worked on: pre-cog abilities, the ability for a person of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. Aull

3.0 out of 5 stars In The End It All Stays The Same.
Writing reviews on Philip Dick's works is unsettling and leaves one open for all sorts of criticism - it is hard to encapsulate all the ideas he floated in each novel. Read more
Published on October 1, 2004 by David K. Evans

4.0 out of 5 stars Precognitive vision
One of Dick's early novels, The World Jones Made (1956) has well-realized characters and psychological complexity, but lacks a coherent plot focus. Read more
Published on June 2, 2004 by Doug Mackey

4.0 out of 5 stars Science-fiction, Existentialism and Beat Generation.
"The World Jones Made" is an early book in PKD's huge production. In its frame there are resonances from Sartre and Kerouac. Read more
Published on April 20, 2004 by Maximiliano F Yofre

4.0 out of 5 stars The rise and rise of Phillip K Dick
The other reviews of the book cover the plot and microcosms of The world Jones made, so I have little to add there. Read more
Published on January 13, 2004 by S Hanes

4.0 out of 5 stars Glimpses of an untested PKD
True, The World Jones Made is an early entry into the pantheon of Dick's works and thus is devoid of the massive, week long acid trips, intense paranoia, and general tampering... Read more
Published on August 13, 2002 by Winston J. Pennyworth III

3.0 out of 5 stars The Untiring Din Of An Impassioned Man
This minor Philip K. Dick novel was written early in his career and is only interesting in that it plays with ideas that would later hatch full blown in his fiction. Read more
Published on March 31, 2001 by Richard Behrens

3.0 out of 5 stars Author and Character Try for Greatness
This was one of PKD's first novels, and it shows - although the plot has some strong original elements in it, the language and manner of telling are pretty standard-issue for... Read more
Published on December 31, 2000 by benshlomo

4.0 out of 5 stars 1956!
Okay, this isn't later PKD. There is no twist and fold of reality, no astral trip. But that doesn't make it any less worthwhile for reading. Read more
Published on August 15, 2000 by Bradley Beth

4.0 out of 5 stars great
the title was one of the best considering its content. once jones realizes what his gift holds, then the world prepares for what he sees, never influencing the now, but creating... Read more
Published on April 2, 2000 by jorge

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