Ubik

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Filled with paranoiac menace and unfettered slapstick, UBIK is a searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation--salvation which comes in a convenient aerosol spray, to be used only as directed!

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Nobody but Philip K. Dick could so successfully combine SF comedy with the unease of reality gone wrong, shifting underfoot like quicksand. Besides grisly ideas like funeral parlors where you swap gossip for the advice of the frozen dead, Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character's attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll:

"I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."

Chip works for Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency, which hires out its talents to block telepathic snooping and paranormal dirty tricks. When its special team tackles a big job on the Moon, something goes terribly wrong. Runciter is killed, it seems--but messages from him now appear on toilet walls, traffic tickets, or product labels. Meanwhile, fragments of reality are timeslipping into past versions: Joe Chip's beloved stereo system reverts to a hand-cranked 78 player with bamboo needles. Why does Runciter's face appear on U.S. coins? Why the repeated ads for a hard-to-find universal panacea called Ubik ("safe when taken as directed")?

The true, chilling state of affairs slowly becomes clear, though the villain isn't who Joe Chip thinks. And this is Dick country, where final truths are never quite final and--with the help of Ubik--the reality/illusion balance can still be tilted the other way. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk

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	Customer Reviews: Average Rating: Rating : - Reading this is like drinking sand I've always loved the movies that have stemmed and borrowed from Philip K. Dick's work, and so I thought for the first PKD I read, I'd try reading 'Ubik,' supposedly one of his best, and one that hadn't been turned into a film yet. Is it just me? I didn't really enjoy it. I think the novel is poorly written, and the thoughts behind it aren't that interesting either. As you read on, it keeps seeming like the plot will be wrapped up in some cool way. But no, in the end the strange get stranger and nothing really makes sense, and not in a emo-nihilistic 'nothing makes sense' way either. My advice: go to the bookstore or library and read five pages. Then you'll understand. *UPDATE - one week later* I've now read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and have had time to reflect on this book, and I guess it's not as bad as I made it out to be. Just don't believe the hype and you might end up enjoying the book. + See Full Customer Review

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