Ubik (original title Ubik ) is a Romance of Science-fiction, written in 1969 by Philip K. Dick (the United States).

Summary

Glen Runciter died, in an explosion financed by one of its rivals. But is it really? Whereas funerals of Runciter take place with Monks, in a moratorium, its employees, whose Joe Chip (tester of field psi and right-hand man of Runciter) or Al Hammond receives strange messages of their owner: " I am alive, you are morts" is the Leitmotiv of this book. They observe moreover one regression of their world, inevitable. And if Runciter had not died? What is it then? It should be noted that in Ubik , deaths recent are placed in " semi-vie" , a kind of artificial coma where they form a " réseau" thoughts with the others deceased. From there at the reader the assumption is formed that the experiment of the " world régressif" lived by Joe Chip and his colleagues is due to the fact that they all are placed in semi-life (with of course the ignorance of their own state), while Runciter is him, quite alive… Ubik would be in this case monstrous a Mise in abyme.

Adaptations

Cryo Interactive Entertainment made of it a Video game in 1998 in the kind action/ventures/strategy.

Posterity

Ubik was also the name of one of the most creative groups of the scene of Rennes of the Années 1980, carried out by the bass player singer Philippe Maujard.

Ubik is also the title of a broadcast television on the chain France 5 which borrowed its name from the book of Dick.

It is also the name of an editor of Roleplays, of Card decks to collect and Board game (www.editions-ubik.com).

Ubik is also more known under the name of ubyk or:: ubyk, artist impossible to circumvent of the French-speaking scene. He is undoubtedly the actor who influenced the most the kinetic scene Suisse (Animation Flash) with his not less famous Community group of which he is the founder: Adddvance.net which from now on closed its doors after recovery.

Lastly, for the anecdote, there exists also a soundsystem techno named Ubik, which organizes free left in south-east the France. In Latin, ubic means everywhere.

" ubik" is also the name of a studio of imagery 3D " www.ubik.fr "

One of the members of God Hand resulting from the manga Berserk fore-mentioned Ubik.

Traditional of the science fiction

This novel is regarded as a great classic of the Science-fiction in the following reference books:

• Annick Beguin, 100 principal titles of the science fiction , Cosmos 2000,1981;

• Jacques Sadoul, Anthology of the literature of science fiction , Ramsay, 1981;
• Denis Guiot, the Science fiction , Massin, coll “the world of… ”, 1987;
• Science fiction. The ideal library , Albin Michel, 1988;
• Investigation of Fanzine Carnage society man near his readers, 1989;
• Lorris Murail, the Masters of the science fiction , Bordered, coll “Compact”, 1993;
• Stan Barets, science-fictionnaire , Denoël, coll “Presence of the future”, 1994;
• ideal Library of the webzine cosmic Cockroach.

In 2005, Time Magazine distinguished it like “one from the 100 best novels in English language since 1923”.

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