The World Jones Made is a 1956 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, examining notions of precognition, humanity, and politics.

The story ends with the defeat of Jones, whose plans fail despite his ability to see the future due to the immutability of fate.

In a flashback, Doug Cussick, then in charge of enforcing relativism, meets fortune teller Floyd Jones at a fair.

Jones makes two predictions: Firstly, a nationalist named Ernest T. Saunders will win the next election for the presidency.

Cussick's report that Jones apparently knew high-level information about the true nature of the Drifters shocks Pearson.

Doug Cussick is transferred to Denmark, where he meets his future wife Nina Longstren, an artist and sceptic of relativism.

Cussick informs his wife that Jones' notoriety has been rising since he joined a new religious movement and has been making prophecies about future encounters with aliens.

Eventually Pearson confesses that Drifters have already landed on Earth, which in turn confirms the truth of Jones' statements and makes it impossible to arrest him as an offence against relativism.

While on a date with some friends in a San Francisco bar, Cussick learns that his wife is a member of the Floyd Jones movement.

At the office, Cussick learns that the Max Kaminski he mentioned has stolen a large amount of secret documents that he was going to deliver to the Jones movement.

Cussick is promoted to take Kaminski's place and is put in charge of the security of Dr Rafferty's secret project.

In the meantime, Floyd Jones holds a rally in which he calls for the expansion of humanity to other systems and condemns the Fedgov's ‘plutocracy’.

Jones tells him that his movement is doomed to failure because the plant-like organisms will seal off Earth in response to the violence against the drifters and prevent any further exploration - a simple natural containment of a threat.

At the centre of this change is the general adoption of ‘relativism’ as the central legal and moral doctrine, enforced by a brutal police state.

He sees the colonisation of other planets as inevitable and believes that the existing social order is incapable of facilitating this transition.

In the long term, he endeavours to track the Drifters to their home planet and usher in a new era of aggressive human expansion.

However, Jones realises too late that the Drifters are harmless and that his large-scale crusade will not extend beyond a few local star systems.

He recognizes that any strategy aimed at transforming humanity into an open society must involve a certain degree of uncertainty to succeed.

The mutants in the nightclub, who possess both male and female characteristics, are the ultimate expression of relativism and bring Cussick’s ongoing struggle with himself and his views on reality to a climax.

In contrast to Jones, Cussick continuously questions and revises his interpretation of the world, making concrete and impactful decisions about his future.

And while Jones and humanity experience a catastrophic downfall, the fate of Cussick and the inhabitants on Venus has a distinctly redemptive and restorative aspect.