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Ubik: The reality bending science fiction masterpiece
By (Author) Philip K Dick
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
14th November 2017
14th September 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
224
Width 131mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
200g
Glen Runciter is dead.
Or is heSomeone 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.One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac - SUNDAY TIMES
My literary hero - Fay WeldonFor everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first - Terry GilliamPhilip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, BEYOND LIES THE WUB in 1952. Among his many fine novels are THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP and FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID.