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 Bolaņo |
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Page 7
... wondered what had happened, what pressure had forced Runciter out of his bailiwick to make this belated pilgrimage to the Beloved Brethren Moratorium to crank up — as Runciter crudely phrased it—his half-lifer wife. A business crisis of ...
... wondered what had happened, what pressure had forced Runciter out of his bailiwick to make this belated pilgrimage to the Beloved Brethren Moratorium to crank up — as Runciter crudely phrased it—his half-lifer wife. A business crisis of ...
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... genuine, original ones, failed. Medical science, he conjectured, supplies the material groundwork, and out of the authority of his mind Runciter supplies the remainder. I wonder how old he is, he wondered. 8 PHILIP K. DICK.
... genuine, original ones, failed. Medical science, he conjectured, supplies the material groundwork, and out of the authority of his mind Runciter supplies the remainder. I wonder how old he is, he wondered. 8 PHILIP K. DICK.
Page 9
... wondered. Impossible any more to tell by looks, especially after ninety. “Miss Beason,” he instructed his secretary, “have Mrs. Ella Runciter located and bring me the ident number. She's to be taken to office 2-A.” He seated himself ...
... wondered. Impossible any more to tell by looks, especially after ninety. “Miss Beason,” he instructed his secretary, “have Mrs. Ella Runciter located and bring me the ident number. She's to be taken to office 2-A.” He seated himself ...
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... wondered, to be in half-life? He could never fathom it from what Ella had told him; the basis of it, the experience of it, couldn't really be transmitted. Gravity, she had told him, once; it begins not to affect you and you float, more ...
... wondered, to be in half-life? He could never fathom it from what Ella had told him; the basis of it, the experience of it, couldn't really be transmitted. Gravity, she had told him, once; it begins not to affect you and you float, more ...
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... wondered what that meant. “This is Pat,” G. G. Ashwood said, his arm, with ostentatious familiarity, around the girl's waist. “Never mind her last name.” Square and puffy, like an overweight brick, wearing his usual mohair poncho ...
... wondered what that meant. “This is Pat,” G. G. Ashwood said, his arm, with ostentatious familiarity, around the girl's waist. “Never mind her last name.” Square and puffy, like an overweight brick, wearing his usual mohair poncho ...
Common terms and phrases
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