The World Jones Made

Floyd Jones is a sullen, possibly mad malcontent. But he has the ability to see exactly one year into the future. And this enables his rise from carnival fortune-teller to charismatic demagogue, whipping up the population into a frenzy against the threat of 'drifters', enormous single-cell organisms that may soon be landing on Earth. But Jones is a tragic leader, and the limits on his ability will ultimately render him helpless to fight against what he knows will happen. Prophetic and unsettling, this chronicle of the rise and fall of a post-nuclear messiah is one of Philip K. Dick's greatest early novels.