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Violence
Some
Deaths and the decay of reality; some violence in the mission that goes wrong
Language
Some
Adult language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The extreme disorientation of a reality that cannot be trusted; Dick's signature paranoid universe at its most disturbing
What this book is about
Joe Chip, a low-level technician at a company of anti-psychic inertials, travels to the Moon for a mission that goes catastrophically wrong. Back on Earth, reality begins to regress: objects corrode, people die inexplicably, and time itself seems to be running backward. Ubik—a spray that may or may not exist—is advertised on every surface and in every moment. Dick's 1969 novel is one of his most tightly plotted and philosophically rich: a meditation on entropy, corporate power, and the reality of death.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Reality decaying in disturbing and unpredictable ways
The philosophical horror of Dick's universe
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