2. Intended audience:
If you love science fiction,
mystery, and/or trippy weird
stuff then Ubik is for you!
Phillip K. Dick is known for
his mind-blowing works.
This is a great book, but it’s
pretty trippy stuff.
3. Setting:
The book is set in a future
(1992 :)) where even your door
expects to be paid before it
will open for you and people
can speak to their dead, but
frozen loved ones. We start
out on Earth, move to the
moon, and then it gets weird.
4. Protagonist:
Joe Chip is a smart guy who
has terrible money skills. He
works for a business that
helps people block psychics
from knowing their personal
business.
5. Plot synopsis:
Joe Chip has helped assemble
a team of “inertials” to block
a work site on the moon from
the minds of psychic spies.
Things go badly and his
coworkers start dying
horribly one by one while
time itself starts to go funny.
How can Ubik help and what
even is this wonder product?
6. Audio/Visual joy:
There have been many
attempts to turn the book
into the movie but it’s hard to
turn this much weird into a
film. There is the book, a
game, an audiobook, and a
ton of fan-made commercials.
The following is the best
book trailer I could find.
