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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... couldn't do anything; he therefore went back to Topeka, Kansas, where he's currently scouting a new possibility.” Runciter, more awake now, had lit a cigarette; chin in hand, he sat propped up somberly, smoke drifting across the scanner ...
... couldn't do anything; he therefore went back to Topeka, Kansas, where he's currently scouting a new possibility.” Runciter, more awake now, had lit a cigarette; chin in hand, he sat propped up somberly, smoke drifting across the scanner ...
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... couldn't really be transmitted. Gravity, she had told him, once; it begins not to affect you and you float, more and more. When half-life is over, she had said, I think you float out of the System, out into the stars. But she did not ...
... couldn't really be transmitted. Gravity, she had told him, once; it begins not to affect you and you float, more and more. When half-life is over, she had said, I think you float out of the System, out into the stars. But she did not ...
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... couldn't stop.” “Yeah,” Runciter said, nodding. “The Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, tells about that. You remember reading that; the doctors made you read it when you were —” He hesitated. “Dying,” he said then. “The smoky ...
... couldn't stop.” “Yeah,” Runciter said, nodding. “The Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, tells about that. You remember reading that; the doctors made you read it when you were —” He hesitated. “Dying,” he said then. “The smoky ...
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... couldn't be found. He had not only lost Ella; he had also lost her advice, Jory having supplanted her before she could give it. “When we return her to the bin,” von Vogelsang was blabbing, “we won't install her near Jory again. In fact ...
... couldn't be found. He had not only lost Ella; he had also lost her advice, Jory having supplanted her before she could give it. “When we return her to the bin,” von Vogelsang was blabbing, “we won't install her near Jory again. In fact ...
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... fact I'm already picking up the thoughts of some gloonk in a ground-level apt; he —” “Okay,” Joe Chip said, resigned. Once started, G. G. Ashwood's relentless monologs couldn't be aborted anyhow. He might as well UBIK 21.
... fact I'm already picking up the thoughts of some gloonk in a ground-level apt; he —” “Okay,” Joe Chip said, resigned. Once started, G. G. Ashwood's relentless monologs couldn't be aborted anyhow. He might as well UBIK 21.
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