Thread: Sci-Fi Recommendations - similar to Ubik
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Old 05-06-2013, 08:07 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
It has to be said that starting to read Philip K. Dick by opening Ubik is like starting to explore the solar system by flying to Pluto.

I've not read it since 1978, but the teenage me was blown away by it. I've been struggling to think of a book that's like it. Again, I'd have to reread it, but Dick's own A Scanner Darkly also had an effect on me.

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