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Philip K. Dick’s celebrated speculative novel centers on Glen Runciter, a businessman who leads a successful anti‑psychic security firm. After a violent attack leaves him and his top team trapped in a suspended‑animation state, they begin to notice unsettling phenomena: objects that seem to defy physics, the reversal of time and the appearance of Runciter’s face on coinage. As supplies dwindle and technology regresses, the group must uncover the cause of these disturbances and the role of a strange substance named Ubik that may be key to their survival and the nature of reality itself.
First publish date: 1969
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Philip K. Dick
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