Dr. Futurity
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 Cover of first edition (paperback) |
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| Author | Philip K. Dick |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Released | 1960 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It is an expansion of his earlier short story Time Pawn, which first saw publication in the summer 1954 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Dr. Futurity was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-421, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's Slavers of Space.
[edit] Plot introduction
Dr. Jim Parsons, a medical doctor from 2012 America (it is revealed that Parsons is 32 years old and was born in 1980), is suddenly thrown into the future. There he finds that his profession is treated with disdain; in the future individuality is sacrificed for the good of the human race as a whole. By killing off the weak, poverty and disease are eliminated.
However, Parsons' travel through time is no accident and he finds that a group rebelling against the ruling system has taken him through time to heal a man in the future, so that he can change the past.
