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The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown
The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown Author:Philip K. Dick, Margaret St. Clair The World Jones Made is a 1956 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, examining notions of precognition, humanity, and politics. — The World Jones Made is set in the year 2002, a then-future post-apocalyptic Earth, where a devastating atomic war has resulted in the imposition of a Federal World Government (Fe... more »dgov).
The status quo of this particular dystopia is challenged by a man named Floyd Jones, whose ability to predict the future with uncanny accuracy gives him power and influence -- for a while.
Agent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair.: Don Haig was content to lie around and drink in the synthetic beauty of the pleasure planetoid Fyon, until a woman came into his life. A woman more beautiful and more perfect -- and dangerous --than any other female in the galaxy.
She is a pocket-sized doll -- a strange and miraculous puppet who sheds constant tears and holds powers that Don has never even dreamed of.
But little does Don know that dangerous alien forces are zeroing in on him and his living doll .. and that he has to discover her super-scientific secret before his own life is smashed to atoms!« less