UbikNamed one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. “From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all. “More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño |
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... Glen Runciter swam up to fill the vidscreen. “We got this news from one of our inertials. Let me look.” He fiddled with a disarranged stack of tapes from the recorder which monitored incoming messages. “Our Miss Dorn reported it; as you ...
... Glen Runciter swam up to fill the vidscreen. “We got this news from one of our inertials. Let me look.” He fiddled with a disarranged stack of tapes from the recorder which monitored incoming messages. “Our Miss Dorn reported it; as you ...
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... Glen Runciter, all the way here from the North American Confederation.” A tall, elderly man, with large hands and a quick, sprightly stride, came toward him. He wore a varicolored Dacron washand-wear suit, knit cummerbund and dip-dyed ...
... Glen Runciter, all the way here from the North American Confederation.” A tall, elderly man, with large hands and a quick, sprightly stride, came toward him. He wore a varicolored Dacron washand-wear suit, knit cummerbund and dip-dyed ...
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... Runciter located and bring me the ident number. She's to be taken to office 2-A.” He seated himself across from her ... Glen Runciter's wife. 2 The best way to ask for beer is to UBIK 9.
... Runciter located and bring me the ident number. She's to be taken to office 2-A.” He seated himself across from her ... Glen Runciter's wife. 2 The best way to ask for beer is to UBIK 9.
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... Glen,” she said, with a sort of childish wonder, surprised, taken aback, to ... Runciter said, nodding. “The Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead ... Glen, what I think? I think that other people who are around me — we seem to be ...
... Glen,” she said, with a sort of childish wonder, surprised, taken aback, to ... Runciter said, nodding. “The Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead ... Glen, what I think? I think that other people who are around me — we seem to be ...
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