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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. First edition of one of Philip K. Dick's most acclaimed novels. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip K. Dick on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Peter Rauch. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. 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…

"Ubik" by Philip K. Dick is a mind-bending sci-fi masterpiece exploring the unpredictable nature of reality. Set in a future where psychic powers are commonplace, the story follows Joe Chip, an anti-psychic operative. After a catastrophic incident, Joe becomes embroiled in a perplexing struggle against the destabilization of reality. He encounters strange occurrences where time, space, and perceptions warp erratically. Amidst this chaos, the enigmatic substance "Ubik" emerges, offering uncertain powers and challenging the very fabric of existence. Dick's narrative brilliantly delves into themes of identity, truth, and the elusive nature of reality, delivering a thought-provoking journey that blurs the lines between perception and certainty.