paperback, 197 pages
Published Aug. 12, 1976 by Ediciones Martínez Roca.
Ubik, escrito en 1966 y publicado en 1969, es una de las obras maestras de Philip K. Dick. Ubik se amplió y adaptó del cuento "What the Dead Men Say" publicado en Worlds of Tomorrow en 1964.
El arruinado Joe Chip viaja a la Luna con su jefe Glen Runciter —cuya difunta esposa se mantiene artificialmente en un estado llamado semivida— y un pequeño grupo de antipsíquicos para solucionar los problemas que sufre una empresa con algunos telépatas infiltrados. Allí caen en una trampa en la que muere Runciter. A la vuelta del grupo a la Tierra, una extraña regresión parece afectar a la realidad
...having said that you probably need to be a PKD fan to get into it at first. I am willing to bet more than a few people met this book first and noped out of PKD forever, which is a shame. Not the most accessible story, takes a bit of stamina, imo, but the payoff is well well worth it.
I've never read a book that more convincingly took a dreamlike premise and made it work so powerfully. If there was a book which encapsulated the experience of being in a nightmare you can't wake up from, this would be it. Very, very good.
Sharp satire about hubris and business and PKD's mind-bending doubts about what is real and what is in your mind quite explicit here, aged better than most things of this era... and I ultimately didn't care much about where the story went.
