Time Out of Joint is a dystopian novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960.
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Time Out of Joint is a dystopian novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960.
The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them. The title is a reference to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The line is uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe ("The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!/That ever I was born to set it right!" [I.V.211-2]), much as do several events in the novel.
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 him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?'
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Time Out of Joint (Roc)
Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published March 5, 1994 by Penguin USA (P).
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- 978-0-14-017173-0Copied ISBN!
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- 59914770
Time Out of Joint
Paperback, 263 pages
English language
Published Dec. 5, 1987 by Carroll & Graf Pub.
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- 978-0-88184-352-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 17345979
Zeit aus den Fugen.
Paperback, 287 pages
German language
Published Sept. 1, 2002 by Heyne.
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- 978-3-453-21730-0Copied ISBN!
Time out of joint
255 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1979 by Dell.
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- 978-0-440-18860-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 9367637
Time Out of Joint
Paperback, 192 pages
Published June 13, 1969 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-009632-3Copied ISBN!
Time Out of Joint
Paperback, 224 pages
Published Sept. 11, 2003 by Gollancz.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-07458-3Copied ISBN!
O tempo desconjuntado
Hardcover
Portuguese language
Published Sept. 13, 2018 by Suma das Letras.
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- 978-85-5651-066-2Copied ISBN!
Le temps désarticulé
mass market paperback
Published Feb. 28, 1987 by Pocket/Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-02081-7Copied ISBN!
Zeit aus den Fugen
Paperback
Published Jan. 23, 2019 by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
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- 978-3-596-90695-6Copied ISBN!
Le temps désarticulé
mass market paperback
Published Feb. 28, 1987 by Pocket/Presses Pocket.
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- 978-2-266-02081-7Copied ISBN!
Time out of joint
263 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1984 by Bluejay Books.
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- 978-0-312-94427-8Copied ISBN!
Time out of joint
187 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1969 by Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-002847-8Copied ISBN!
Time out of joint
221 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1979 by Gregg Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8398-2480-0Copied ISBN!
Zeit aus den Fugen
287 pages
German language
Published Jan. 5, 1995 by Haffmans.
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- 978-3-251-20186-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 75616203
Time out of joint
255 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2002 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-375-71927-1Copied ISBN!
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