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Ubik

224 pages 1969 Science Fiction, Classic 🌶️ Clean Standalone
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Joe Chip works for a company that blocks psychic powers. After a bombing on the Moon, reality starts degrading around him — 1992 becomes 1939, technology reverses, and a mysterious product called Ubik seems to be the only thing holding the world together. Dick's most inventive and unsettling novel.

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Is This Book for You?

Skip if you dislike:

Ending: Mind-destroying
Pacing: Fast

What This Book Feels Like

Moods: Mind-Bending Paranoid Trippy Dark

Tropes: Reality Shifting Half-Life Time Decay Psychic Powers

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is the ending comprehensible?

Deliberately not — it's designed to make you question everything you just read.

Is it really one of the greatest sci-fi novels?

Time magazine included it in the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.

What is Ubik?

That is the question the entire novel asks.

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