Ubik

Glen Runciter runs Runciter Associates, a company whose inertials cancel the powers of telepaths and precogs. A job on Stanton Mick's Moon base turns out to be a trap, and a bomb blast apparently kills Runciter. His team, including the debt-ridden technician Joe Chip and the mysterious Pat Conley, then finds reality shifting around them. The world warps and regresses, and strange messages seem to come from their boss. The story plays with death, time and what is real, and asks whether Runciter is really gone.

Why You Should Read?

• Follow Joe Chip, a debt-ridden technician, as reality begins to shift around his team.
• Explore a future where humanity has colonized the Moon and psychic powers are common.
• Meet Pat Conley, a mysterious girl who can undo events by changing the past.
• Experience the mystery of Glen Runciter's bewildering messages to his mourning employees as his funeral is scheduled.

About the Author

Philip K. Dick (1928 to 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, and began publishing in 1952. His fiction explored reality, perception, human nature and identity. The Man in the High Castle (1962) won him a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He also wrote Ubik, A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.