Ubik

<p>"An accident has occurred. Joe Chip and his colleagues--all but one of them--have narrowly escaped an explosion at a moon base. Or is it the other way round? Did Joe and the others die and did the one fatality Glen Runciter actually survive? . . . From the stuff of space opera Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from."--Lev Grossman <em>Time</em></p><p>In 1974 Philip K. Dick was commissioned to write a screenplay based on his novel <em>Ubik</em>. The film was eventually scrapped but the screenplay was saved and later published in 1985. Featuring scenes that are not in the book and a surreal playfulness--the style of the writing goes back in time just like the technology in the book's dreamworld--this screenplay is the only one Dick wrote and features his signature mix of paranoia humor and big-idea philosophy.</p>