I spent a summer reading all of Philip K. Dick's works. Ubik was one of my favorites. He had one of the most creative minds in the sci-fi world.

Here's the link again to my Philip K. Dick playlist. It doubled in size since we last talked. I scoured and scrolled so deep I reached a statement saying NO MORE RESULTS! (for audio books). To listen to UBIK, it's this way: PHILIP k. DICK MIND BLOWING SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS PLAYLIST: kzfaq.info/sun/PLpoWtUf1pGbWtVFEDHq3-ZDIzDpU7HCIG (still all good with you, Jonathan?)🚀

Jonathan, thank you, as always, for all your videos. Particularly, Ubik is my first P. K. Dick read and I loved it! I believe it's not perfect, but I cannot give this work less than 5 stars in order to reflect my enjoyment. Just by reading this book it is obvious that Dick was a brilliant mind. So creative! So defiant! So disruptive for the time it was conceived and written (60s decade). You can clearly see that huge modern blockbusters (Matrix, Inception) are inspired on wonderful creations from decades before, such as this "Ubik" one. Hugs!

I think this was the first book that I couldn't stop thinking about for like a week after I read it. Absolutely love it

I loved Ubik and am a fan of PKD's books in general and the ideas they bring. Minority Report is another film adaptation which PKD wrote as a short story more than 10 years prior to Ubiq, with the interesting idea of a "Dept of Precrime" where they apprehend murderers before they actually commit the act - predicted by 'precogs', people who have the ability to see the future. There are quite a few films you see with his ideas embedded in them. The recent netflix series "1899" kind of reminded me of "A Maze of Death" if you watch to the end - I won't spoil it .. I'm about to start "Martian Time-Slip" and am keen to see what ideas that brings.

I have read quite a few Philip K Dick books. My favourite is ‘A Scanner Darkly’ which I thought was better than the movie. I enjoyed ‘Ubik’ but I was underwhelmed by ‘Man in the High Castle’ Other favourites in ‘The Galactic Pot-Healer’ and ‘Time Out of Joint’.

I just finished reading this book as well and it was my first Philip K dick book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the aspects of the book and felt like it flowed very smoothly from chapter chapter. I'm definitely a big fan of Science Fiction but I don't think I've read a wide variety of it yet. It is quite a psychological read, not quite like the hard sci-fi books that I've read before but I was thoroughly anthrol until the end

Just finished the audiobook of this, not having read it before. The voice acting was really good and I think added a lot to the story, but I think it will be worth re reading now as well. I believe the entire performance that I heard (on audible) was by one guy, but he does all the characters really well as well as the narrator who is "no one". Men, women, machines... all this guy? And almost all of them sound entirely different from each other. It's really quite remarkable.

Brilliant review!! I'm thinking about reading pkd books and ubik sounds like fun, I'm new to sci-fi so little bit intimated 😀

Man, ubik was so mas, really enjoy this, but it was really hard to give a rating. One thing is for sure it Will in my Head for a long time ;)

this book also inspired a Japanese clothing brand named cav empt which makes clothes that fit in with the vibe of the novel

cool channel thanks man!

The popularity today of Liminal Spaces or the Back Rooms reminds me of reading this. As for thoughts on the ending so kinda SPOILER comment: What if Chip did actually regress into the past and it was not just some kind of illusion? He then influenced reality in some way to save Runciter's life so he could save him, at least in spirit, in his Half Life. So..... kind of also a Time Paradox which almost make the confusion worse.

Man in the high castle is bad. I like Ubik probably the best of the books of his I have read but I also remember liking Maze of Death & Scanner Darkly