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4.0 out of 5 stars
Ubik,
By Nick (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: UBIK (Paperback)
[This review is based on the novel as it is published in the Library of America edition, containing 3 other novels by Dick.]
Ubik is a fascinating novel. If you're into virtual realities - Matrix-like - and such, then you would appreciate Ubik. The novel begins like any other Dick novel I read: it's full of obscure terms such as "precog" and other cryptical things, which are meant to be, and which you will soon enough understand clearly. That's not unusual of sci-fi novels. So what you have in this novel is a world in which psychic people are used to spy on people, and to counter this, anti-psychic people are used to neutralise the threat. That's the background, but it's far from being very telling about the novel. In this futuristic world, when people die, they're not entirely dead. Indeed, they are kept alive, or half-alive, via cold-pacs. These are the two elements that structure the story. Then the real plot gets started, and I won't tell you much about it because it is reality-destroying, mind-tearing, and everything. I'll only tell you that at some point, reality regresses. Cars turn into older cars, elevators devolve, milk goes stale, cigarettes become dry and break under the touch, etc. Time is turning back! And then there is even more interesting material. The novel gets better and better, and even the ending is excellent, which is not something I often found with Dick. Of the four novels I read from this author, Ubik stands out as having that superior crafting, or something, and it makes a difference. Little things like the fact that every chapter begins with a quote that's in fact a piece of advertising for Ubik, the product, added some goodness to the novel. And yes, you will come to know what Ubik really is. All you have to do is keep reading.
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