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Ubik by Philip K. Dick

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Philip K. Dick’s 1969 novel Ubik did not win any of the major science fiction awards, but it was selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language published between 1923 and 2005. At the time of his death in 1982, even Dick’s fervent fans could hardly have conceived his enshrinement on such a list, alongside Heming- way, Fa…

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