The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The term "japed" is an archaic term that refers to parody or satire, and is first used in reference to a statue's decapitation within this book.
The Man Who Japed was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-19...
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The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The term "japed" is an archaic term that refers to parody or satire, and is first used in reference to a statue's decapitation within this book.
The Man Who Japed was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-193, bound dos-à-dos with The Space Born by E. C. Tubb.
The Man Who Japed is set in the year 2114. After a devastating twentieth century limited nuclear war, a South African ("Afrikaans Empire") military survivor named General Streiter launched a global revolution in 1985 that ushered in a totalitarian government. As one sign of the carnage, Allen Purcell visits Japan's northern island, Hokkaidō, which is still a desolate wasteland that has not recovered from nuclear bombardment in 1972, the last year of the global war referred to within this...
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