The novel “Time Out of Joint” by Philip K. Dick was published for the first time in 1959.

Ragle Gumm is a veteran who doesn’t have a regular job but has found a good source of income in a newspaper contest. That’s because he is extremely good at guessing where a Martian might land on the map that gets published daily.

Despite the fame that comes from this success, Ragle Gumm feels like a failure who doesn’t even have a home of his own since he lives with his sister Margo, his brother-in-law Vic, and their son Sammy. The game requires considerable mental effort, and sometimes he hallucinates. Some strange events are shared by other people such as finding a magazine that talks about Marilyn Monroe, an actress who seems to be famous but no one in the family knows.