Ubik
Philip K Dick
Sold by Fiction First, Congleton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 5 May 2003
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Near fine
Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Fiction First, Congleton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 5 May 2003
Condition: Used - Near fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketA near fine 1st impression in a very good dustwrapper. The wrapper is browned along the top edge with one repaired 9mm tear at the top of the rear panel. A few marks on the top edge of the text block.
Seller Inventory # 010373
Glen Runciter is dead.
Or is he?
Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already.
"I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out.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 badly 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 time-slipping 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 US coins? Why the repeated ads for a hard-to-find universal panacea called Ubik ("safe when taken as directed")?Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."
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...Another nifty choice from Millennium SF Masterworks. --David Langford
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