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A review by shanehawk
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
5.0
The coolest book I’ve ever read.
Original, humorous, thought-provoking, terrifying.
I couldn’t wait to give this book five stars. I think it just surpassed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as my favorite sci-fi novel. What a mind PKD had.
If you read this book you’ll come across psychics, “time-travel,” space and lunar colonies, altered states, reality, planes of existence, dreams, duality of human nature, faith, consumerism, the afterlife, twists and turns, espionage, paranoia, etc.
Holy hell, I loved it!
“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won’t be alone.”
Update: After a second reading my review still holds up and I appreciated the book even more as I picked up a few additional things missed my first time. I love this book.
Original, humorous, thought-provoking, terrifying.
I couldn’t wait to give this book five stars. I think it just surpassed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as my favorite sci-fi novel. What a mind PKD had.
If you read this book you’ll come across psychics, “time-travel,” space and lunar colonies, altered states, reality, planes of existence, dreams, duality of human nature, faith, consumerism, the afterlife, twists and turns, espionage, paranoia, etc.
Holy hell, I loved it!
“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won’t be alone.”
Update: After a second reading my review still holds up and I appreciated the book even more as I picked up a few additional things missed my first time. I love this book.