Glenn Ranciter, the influential owner of the galaxy's largest telepathic espionage corporation, dies in an explosion set off by his business rivals. However, the former subordinates continue to receive strange, disturbing messages from their boss, while the world around them gradually loses its familiar contours, and time itself seems to begin to move in the opposite direction. What exactly is he trying to tell them? And is Ranciter really dead, and they managed to avoid death in that fatal explosion? Maybe it's the other way around?
One of Philip K. Dick's best-known fantasy novels Ubik (1969) plunges readers into an eerily whimsical futuristic world of espionage intrigue, time warping, and cryogenic spaces where the line between the living and the dead seems surprisingly thin and blurred. Will his characters be able to find a way out of this delusional and disturbing labyrinth? And will their time inexorably and irreversibly slip away until it floats down to a drop?
As in most of his best novels, in Ubik, under the guise of a science fiction plot, Philip Dick managed to paint a real existential human drama, full of passion, struggle, fear, despair, and... hope.
