PHILIP K. DICK, author of The World Jones Made, is a young and rising star in the science-fiction constellation. His first book, Solar Lottery, published by Ace Books in 1955, called forth much excited comment from reviewers and readers. For instance, Damon Knight writing in Infinity magazine, said of the author that “it’s as if Robert Sheckley should abruptly turn into a combination of Alfred Bester, Henry and Catherine Kuttner, and A. E. Van Vogt.” H. H. Holmes, writing in the New York Herald-Tribune, called the book “as elaborately exciting as vintage Van Vogt—with an added touch of C. M. Kornbluth’s social satire.” However, we think that Philip K. Dick is not just a combination of others, but a really new great writer on his own merits. And we think that his latest novel, this one, will prove it.