num_pages: 186
description: Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is &amp; the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn't know that. He thinks it is 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community &amp; that he really is the world's long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. Once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.
language: English
title: Time Out of Joint
titlecomplete: Time Out of Joint
characters: Ragle Gumm
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Time Travel, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 13993
publisher: Penguin Books Limited