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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... 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 may recall she had followed him to Green River, Utah, where — ” Sleepily ...
... 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 may recall she had followed him to Green River, Utah, where — ” Sleepily ...
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... inertials followed him to a motel named the Bonds of Erotic Polymorphic Experience, a sixty-unit subsurface structure catering to businessmen and their hookers who don't want to be entertained. Edie and her colleagues didn't think he ...
... inertials followed him to a motel named the Bonds of Erotic Polymorphic Experience, a sixty-unit subsurface structure catering to businessmen and their hookers who don't want to be entertained. Edie and her colleagues didn't think he ...
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... inertial sticking close to him ever since G. G. Ashwood first scouted him, a year and a half ago. We never lose Melipone; we can't afford to. Melipone can when necessary generate twice the psi field of any other Hollis employee. And ...
... inertial sticking close to him ever since G. G. Ashwood first scouted him, a year and a half ago. We never lose Melipone; we can't afford to. Melipone can when necessary generate twice the psi field of any other Hollis employee. And ...
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... inertials to balance his field, and there's no profit in that; we collect— or did collect— the same fee we get with one inertial. Because the Society has a rate schedule now which we're bound by.” He liked the Society less 14 PHILIP K.
... inertials to balance his field, and there's no profit in that; we collect— or did collect— the same fee we get with one inertial. Because the Society has a rate schedule now which we're bound by.” He liked the Society less 14 PHILIP K.
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... inertials were children, having developed their ability in order to protect themselves against their psionic parents. “How old are you, dear?” G. G. Ashwood asked faintly, turning his head away to speak to the person with him. “Nineteen ...
... inertials were children, having developed their ability in order to protect themselves against their psionic parents. “How old are you, dear?” G. G. Ashwood asked faintly, turning his head away to speak to the person with him. “Nineteen ...
Common terms and phrases
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