Where No One Wears A Frown / Time Out of Joint By Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick’s 1959 Time Out of Joint is a stand-alone science fiction novel. Ragle Gumm lives in an unremarkable Eisenhower-era town, a mostly pleasant backwater. In fact, the town is so unremarkable that if someone were to ask Ragle the name of his town or the state in which it resides, he might not be able to answer. Aside from a plague of late- 1950 s life (mild marital dissatisfaction),…