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.
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Has there ever been a better exemplar of the unreliable narrator than in Philip K. Dick’s UBIK? Characters in future suspended animation with the ability to cerebrally communicate with those outside their frozen state generally do not imbue us with confidence. UBIK is so much more than a brain buzzing, transcendentally complex series of rugs being …
Ubik, Phillip K. Dick’s highly-acclaimed sci-fi novel, is a psychedelic romp through the here and the after-here. Looking 30-some years into the future from 1969 when it was written, Dick saw a world where psychic powers are commonplace, dead is only half dead, the moon and Mars have been colonized, clothing is extravagant and colorful, and …
A Prophetic Story of an Information Security Battle
The novel opens in June 1992. A top telepath in the Sol Systems just fell off the map maintained within Runciter Associates that is a premier Prudence organization. By this time, some humans have developed to have precognition and telepathic powers that represent a threat industrial espionage to …
To state that Philip K. Dick is an amazing author is an understatement. This book, however, fell short with me. I left too many unanswered questions and left me confused and wanting more. The whole time I was reading it from start to finish I was asking myself “What the fuck is going on?”
So many twists and turns . Keeps one wondering what is really reality.
Every book by Philip Dick is worth reading. Yes, I am a fanboy and I have been ever since I read my first Philip Dick novel in my 20s. I am now over 40 years older ad am still a fan. Ubik is actually part of a trilogy. Read all three books.