Ubik.

DICK, Philip K.

Item Number: 92167

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969.

First book club edition of one of Philip K. Dick’s most acclaimed novels. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Rauch.

Ubik "features the creation of a subjective world by a group of people killed in an accident but restored to a kind of consciousness within a preservative machine, though any final determination of what is real in the book is made superbly problematical" (Clute & Nicholls, 329). "A brilliantly realized science fiction future darkened by Kafkaesque paranoia. As portrayed by Dick, a world in which cryogenic suspension has abolished traditional concepts of death and in which psychics can alter the future by changing the past is one that offers no foundation for objective truth" (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 6-113). It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest novels since 1923.