Philip K. Dick - Ubik

Pros: Story, character development, writing style.
Cons: Not for the faint of mind.

What is life? What defines reality? What role does our perception play? Those are the questions Philip K. Dick asks in many of his books. While he was the master of predicting the future society, his books were always about individualism, and his ...

Pros: Arguably his best novel.
Cons: It helps to have read his other work.

Like a moebius strip, reality in Philip K. Dick's novels curves and turns around on itself forming an inside-out, fluctuating eternity of dead ends and possible futures. Sometimes things happen again and again like deja-vu; sometimes they change and the ...

Pros: The best of Philip K. Dick's novels.
Cons: None.

I've read almost all of Philip K. Dick's novels, and Ubik is the best one. Despite having my own strong opinions about how the novel's story could best be described, I can not do better than the (paraphrased) blurbs on the back of the...

Pros: Bending and reshaping reality is a great deal of fun!
Cons: Well, a con would be in the way you see it! ;)

Well, turning reality back on itself is a continuing theme is Philip K. Dick's work, and with the possible exceptions of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "The Man In the High Castle", I don't think Papa Dick has ever been better.

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Pros: Intriging and benefitting from a fascinating setting.
Cons: May leave you with a headache.

It seems that the only thing you can be certain of with Philip K Dick is the high probablity that reality will be in shreds and tatters by the end of the book. Ubik is no exception, although it will almost convince you that it's going to make sense, just...