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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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Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Reality in a can, Avril 28 2004
Par Doug Mackey (Fairfield, IA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
In Ubik, first published in 1969, we find the first distinct appearance of the transcendental element in Dick's work. In his earlier novels, he had been content to demonstrate that there is no "objective" reality irrespective of consciousness: the mind essentially constructs its own world. In Ubik, the protagonist Joe Chip, condemned to a perpetual "half-life" of suspended animation after a fatal accident, finds his world inexorably deteriorating around him. The only thing standing between Joe and complete extinction is a product called Ubik, which comes in spray cans, and, when sprayed on, instantly counteracts the forces of destruction. Among other things, Ubik appears as a razor blade, a deodorant, a bra, a breakfast cereal, a pill for stomach relief, plastic wrap, a salad dressing, a used car, and a savings and loan. As its name implies, it is ubiquitous. Though a symbol of the divine, it is not a mere magical aid but a gift that can only be summoned by the person who needs it through an exercise of will and intelligence. The ending of Ubik has a twist that calls into question the substantiality of the "real world." This is my favorite PKD novel, the one that combines the most dazzling metaphysics with the most involving story and characters. After reading it, one can only start scanning one's own environment for hopeful signs of the redeeming Ubik!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Ubik Ubik Ubik!!! 5 stars!!!, Avril 15 2004
Par Christoph Strizik (Sydney) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This book is fantastic! I have to admit that Ubik was the first Philip K. Dick book I read and I was thrilled by his concepts. I loved this book from the very first page on because it is...abnormal. In the meantime I have also read a couple of other Philip K. Dick books but Ubik is the one which is above all them. The kind of ideas he throws at you are just stunning. Objects are morphing back into earlier technologies (a fancy high speed elevator transforms into an old cable operated thing), a talking doors threatens to prosecute one of the main characters, messages from a dead guy, the picture of the same dead guy turns up on money coins, and last but not least the all important question: are we dead or is everybody else dead? The book has only 200 pages and not a single word is wasted. The story is superbly and plotted in a complex way and takes countless unexpected turns. Every single time when you start to believe what this is all about, it just changes in such a drastic way that you have to put your thoughts together from scratch. Philip K. Dick is a master in his own genre and I don't think anybody else dares to enter his realms. The only sad thing which is currently happening to his brilliant stories is the way Hollywood turns them into cheap blockbusters such as Pay check. I can understand that the complexity of his stories can not be easily turned into movies but using 10% of his genius ideas and 90% action crap is not good
Enough!
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Trying too hard, far from the subtlety of other works, Oct. 16 2003
Par Antoine J. Bachmann (Vandoeuvres, Switzerland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Dick once more plays with his favourite theme, i.e. whether reality is for real. But in Ubik he does so in a heavy way, far from the subtelty one can see in The Man in the High Castle for example. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of books dealing with Reality that are more subtle and smarter than this one. It's not that Dick was uninspired when he wrote it - it's full of energy, has humour as usual. But it just did not work out well that time.

Age cannot have been the problem because he was just 7 years older (41) when he wrote Ubik, than when he wrote TMITHC.

I am a big fan of Philip K Dick, but Ubik is simply one of his weaker books - most if not all writers have them.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 One of Dick's weaker books
Phil Dick is my favorite writer, but of the 15 books I've read by him, this is my least favorite. The plot is confused and the characters, never a strong point in PKD's books, are... Read more
Publié le Oct. 18 2003 par Dr. Christian B. Smart

5.0étoiles sur 5 Unbelievably weird, quite funny, and thought-provoking
I've been reading the works of Philip K. Dick for several years now, and have read most of his more well-known works, thought I still have a lot to go. Read more
Publié le Sep 2 2003 par VoodooLord7

5.0étoiles sur 5 Safe When Taken as Directed
Every time I read a book by Phil Dick, I'm surprised. How did he come up with this stuff? You get repetitive themes: alternate realities, psychic phenomenon, alienation, a... Read more
Publié le Aoû 8 2003 par Michael A. Kopp

4.0étoiles sur 5 The Matrix and the Return of the Living Dead
Millions of humans on this planet are right now eagerly waiting for the premiere of the second installment in the Wachowsky brothers' pop stew of Hong Kong fight movies, Berkeley... Read more
Publié le Mai 5 2003 par FABRICIO M. R. Silva

5.0étoiles sur 5 Another Great PKD Novel
After reading "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" and being blown away by it, I decided to give Philip K. Dick another try. Read more
Publié le Avril 11 2003 par Kevin Keigwin

5.0étoiles sur 5 Time Unstuck Beyond the Grave
From about the mid-60's to mid-70's PKD was really in his element, delivering his greatest novels of bizarre mind-expanding futures. Read more
Publié le Fév 11 2003 par doomsdayer520

4.0étoiles sur 5 Metaphysics and commercialism in a convenient aerosol spray
As much a mystery-style thriller as science-fiction novel, "Ubik" projects a future (1992, but no matter) in which telepathic citizens, or "psis," are hired to invade privacy and... Read more
Publié le Fév 3 2003 par D. Cloyce Smith

5.0étoiles sur 5 Loved it even though I didn't "get" the ending at all!
I hate to admit this but after finishing Ubik I have no idea what point Philip K. Dick was making with the conclusion of this story. Read more
Publié le Janv. 30 2003 par AMC

5.0étoiles sur 5 Pleasurable excursion of the mind
I think I have to say that the only people who can truly read a P.K.D. book from start to finish without becoming disheartened are people who enjoy and take pleasure out of... Read more
Publié le Janv. 5 2003 par Adam Chen

5.0étoiles sur 5 Classic PKD
I finished reading Ubik and I couldn't even start any other books for a week because I had to sit and think about everything that had just happened. Read more
Publié le Déc 31 2002 par alchemist42

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