Time Out of Joint
Author: Philip K. Dick
The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world – John Brunner., , Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day – and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life – indeed his whole world – is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping….Read More
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