When Dr. Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he discovers himself in another populated almost entirely by the youthful. But to keep carefully the world run with the youthful, death is normally fetishized, and the ones who survive to later years are placed down. In such a world, Parsons – along with his innate desire to save lots of lives – is usually a legal and outcast. But for one innovative group, he might be just the savior they need to heal and revive their cryogenically freezing leader. And when he as well as the group trip to 1500s California, what they find causes them to question what they know about history and the underpinnings of their culture. Using the jarring immediacy of an automobile crash, Philip K. Dick throws both the listener and protagonist of Dr. Futurity right into a bizarre long term where healing is a crime and youth guidelines.