Time Out of Joint

External Since: Jul 03, 2003 Posts: 10

Hello,

Recently managed to aquire this book and read it over a few days last
week - I must say that, other than the slightly dissapointingly
standard SF ending (but then Phil sometimes had problems coralling his
stories in the end during the early period) it was amongs his best -
the way the paranoia builds over the first half of the novel is
probably more subtle than even some of his later works - marvelous
stuff.

This story doesn't seem to get mentioned in the same reverence as the
more obvious classics like Ubik, Scanner and Three Stigmata (although
Lawrence Sutin does praise it highly in 'Divine Invasions', which
brought it to my attention).

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on it?

External Since: Jun 29, 2004 Posts: 1

>
>Hello,
>
>Recently managed to aquire this book and read it over a few days last
>week - I must say that, other than the slightly dissapointingly
>standard SF ending (but then Phil sometimes had problems coralling his
>stories in the end during the early period) it was amongs his best -
>the way the paranoia builds over the first half of the novel is
>probably more subtle than even some of his later works - marvelous
>stuff.
>
>This story doesn't seem to get mentioned in the same reverence as the
>more obvious classics like Ubik, Scanner and Three Stigmata (although
>Lawrence Sutin does praise it highly in 'Divine Invasions', which
>brought it to my attention).
>
>Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on it?

Reading it now so I cant judge it completely but thus far its taking alot of
interesting turns.

~RD~