Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly and quite possibly mad, but he really can see exactly one year into the future. And this talent means that in a very short time he rises from being a disgruntled carnival fortune-teller to convulse an entire planet. For Jones becomes a demagogue, whipping up the ideal-starved population into a frenzy against the threat of the 'drifters' , enormous single-cell protoplasms that may be landing on Earth soon.
But, in a world of engineered mutants, hermaphrodite sex performers in drug-fuelled nightclubs, Jones is a tragic messiah. His limited precognition renders him helpless because he cannot bring himself to fight against what he knows will happen . . .
- ISBN10 1557850127
- ISBN13 9781557850126
- Publish Date 1 March 1988 (first published January 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2021
- Imprint Bart Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English