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1   alsatia | May 11, 2013 |  Ubik: tastes great, less filling. Use only as directed. In all seriousness, this is a fast, good read. It gets a rare 5 star rating from me. Clearly reality-benders like The Matrix and Inception are direct descendants of works like this one by PK Dick. If you like those, read this work by the master. Highly recommended. (  ) alsatia | May 11, 2013 | Submitting my review soon... ( ) marcoguarda | Apr 27, 2013 | Kooky plot. Its reality has the rubbery feel of Dali's Persistence of Memory. Has the makings of a page-turning SF adventure, with some X-Men ideas, then evolves into a kind of hallucinatory meditation on reality & death and their opposites. Filled with unconscious addiction imagery, as well as some raw material about mass consumerism & materialism. (And what's the deal with PKD and WWII?) Its internal logic is inconsistent, malleable. The final chapter is a cheap mindf**k (I was a Lost fan; I can spot those a mile off). Still, readable and rich. (  ) patronus11 | Mar 31, 2013 | A group of anti-telepaths are caught up in a decaying world from which they can't seem to escape. As with most Philip K Dick, at first I didn't understand what was going on. By the middle of the book I had caught on. By the end, I wasn't sure that even Dick had a clear idea of what was happening! However, complicated ideas are all part of the charm and fascination of science-fiction, and something that this book uses extremely well. More book reviews at http://talesfromfoxglovecottage.blogspot.co.uk/ (  )2 onelittlething | Mar 15, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inFour Novels of the 1960s : The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick Counterfeit unrealities by Philip K. Dick Five Great Novels: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep", "Martian Time Slip", "Ubik", "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "A Scanner Darkly" (GollanczF.) by Philip K. Dick Blade Runner/Ubik/Marsianischer Zeitsturz: 3 Romane in einem Band by Philip K. Dick Has the adaptation
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In all seriousness, this is a fast, good read. It gets a rare 5 star rating from me. Clearly reality-benders like The Matrix and Inception are direct descendants of works like this one by PK Dick. If you like those, read this work by the master. Highly recommended. (