Ubik
1992: Humanity now enjoys a range of psychic abilities. Glen Runciter runs his own organization employing inertials - those capable of blocking telepathic and precognitive waves - to enforce people's privacy. When he and a hand-picked team travel to the moon in order to secure a business magnate's lunar facilities, they walk straight into an explosive trap. And now Runciter is dead. Or is he? SOMEONE died in the bomb blast. But his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from him. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out...
Reviews
DNF at 25% - not for me! The writing was very robotic and I didn’t care about any of the characters. There needed to be better build up to understand the world and parameters of the world. You’re kind of plopped into it and expected to know what it all means.
I enjoyed the very beginning and the middle/end of the book. I wish the story in the beginning was the whole story. I do not like not understanding the plot and it made me feel stupid especially when the end runciter is dead? Are they all dead?
I liked ubik, the ads.
Started slow and dry, the ending was better. What a bizarre book.
The concepts are incredible and fascinating. However the prose is quite dry and I struggled to be engaged at various points in the book. The ending felt cut off and the book needed a few more chapters to fully finish the story
Very middle of the road book. I thought the concept was interesting, but it keep looping back in on itself which was too much for me.
Some key issues:
- There was very, very little character development
- The book also had problems in portraying women and other underrepresented people
The twist at the end where Runciter might actually be dead the whole time was underwhelming.