Ubik
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and place in "half-life," a dream-like state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deterio…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Ubik / Philip K. Dick.
Summary
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and place in "half-life," a dream-like state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1969
- Edition:First Mariner books edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1969
Notes
"A Mariner book."
The Physical Object
- Description:227 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780547572291, 0547572298
- oclc:ocn744294206
- LC Classification:PS3554.I3
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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