"'I am Ubik. Before the universe was I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik but t...
Narrator: Luke Daniels Mild spoilers. This book was mad. This is an alternate futuristic vision of 1992 where psychics of various kinds are counteracted by people with counter-talents. The main character, Joe Chip, goes off on a contract with various others from the firm he works for. When disas...
Amazing story. An interesting blend of science fiction and horror. Enter an alternate world where, by 1992, the countries we know have largely been replaced. Individuals with psionic abilities (telepaths, precogs, and animators (which I can only assume allows the reanimation of dead tissue)) pose a ...
Typical Dick in that it has a creative and unusual plot, the ideas come thick and fast, it has the feel of surrealistic satire, it concerns the nature of the self, God, Salvation, Appearance and Reality and so on. Its absolutely what I am coming to expect from Dick. The plot makes The Matrix look ...
A clever, original and often very funny sci-fi story. It is about psychic power battles, the nature of death, alternative reality and changing the past. Or not.FUNIt was published in 1969 and starts off in a sufficiently plausible but amusingly implausible 1992. In particular, the clothes take the f...
I'm not going to pretend I really got what was going on, but that's ok. I'm going to read some more Dick, and then give this one another go in a year or two, that's what I'm going to do.
There are a few interesting concepts and twists in the book, but when it comes to characters, the story falls flat. Most of them are flat and no one develops or changes in any way. You really have no one to root for or against and don't care what happens to them. There are also some strange plot hol...
This is one of Philip K. Dick's strangest novels. Those who have read his novels know that is saying a lot. But there were a few surprises for me. This is one of his wittiest novels. There are a lot of clever moments especially at the beginning. Yet sooner or later Dick will take you into the weird ...
I am reminded that I need to read more from Philip K Dick. This is only my third novel by him but I have read numerous short stories in anthologies and I can't remember not liking any of them. I am assuming I got completely waylaid after having read him previously because I can't understand not h...
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