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Nobody but Philip K Dick could so successfully combine SF comedy with the unease of reality gone wrong, shifting underfoot like quicksand. Besides grisly ideas like funeral parlours where you swap gossip for the advice of the frozen dead, Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character's attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll:"I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out.Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it."Chip works for Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency, which hires out its talents to bloc
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Manufacturer: Gollancz
Release date: 10 February 2000
ISBN-10 : 1857988531 | ISBN-13: 9781857988536
Release date: 10 February 2000
ISBN-10 : 1857988531 | ISBN-13: 9781857988536
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