Ubik
Ubik by Philip K. Dick is a reprint edition published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012, featuring 227 pages in English. This classic novel explores the perception of reality through a narrative that blends elements of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. The story follows Glen Runciter, who runs a business employing anti-psychics to protect clients from psychic intrusions. After a violent ambush leaves him in a state of suspended animation, Runciter’s team begins to experience bizarre occurrences that challenge their understanding of time and reality.
Readers will encounter a mind-bending exploration of existential themes as the surviving team members grapple with strange phenomena, including Runciter’s face appearing on coins and a world that seems to regress technologically. The narrative delves into the implications of a mysterious product called Ubik, which plays a crucial role in their quest for answers. This edition invites readers to engage with the unsettling atmosphere and complex ideas that define Dick’s work, making it a significant entry in the realms of contemporary and hard science fiction.
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Named 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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