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Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)20:14:08 No.25209311

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Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)20:14:08 No.25209311

I don't get it.

Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)20:16:50 No.25209319

Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)20:16:50 No.25209319

Dude reincarnation LOL

Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)20:17:40 No.25209320

Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)20:17:40 No.25209320

>>25209311
Very phallic cover

Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)20:26:37 No.25209343

Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)20:26:37 No.25209343

It's a Top 5 science fiction book in my opinion.

Anonymous
04/13/26(Mon)20:44:02 No.25209373

Anonymous 04/13/26(Mon)20:44:02 No.25209373

>>25209311
He was the one in cryonic suspension the whole time and the kid from the beginning was stealing his energy. Masterful bait-and-switch with the reality bending powers, this is what modern writers attempt to do with twist endings and fail to have a payoff as clever as this.>>25209343 is correct.
Ironically a piece of art that a tv/movie adaption would actually really use AI properly as the simulation breaks down and loses power but I don't trust directors with PK Dick anymore. A Scanner Darkly was the last faithful adaption IMO and it was still missing a bunch of scenes and sped up Arctor's descent into a split personality.

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)00:01:30 No.25209733

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)00:01:30 No.25209733

>>25209373
Let me run this by you real quick, What if it wasn't Joe Chip OR Runciter in half-life, but rather, ~~the entire plot was from the POV of Runciter's wife Ella~~?

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)02:33:34 No.25209954

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)02:33:34 No.25209954

>>25209311
I'm convinced that the movie Inception was entirely inspired by Ubik, its a defacto Dick movie

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)02:37:16 No.25209960

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)02:37:16 No.25209960

>>25209311
>It was all a dream (or was it???), but the world is also a dream and I love drugs.
Basically all PKD is like this. FMTTPS is my favourite. Read Zhuangzi

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)04:59:19 No.25209997

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)04:59:19 No.25209997

I liked the part where Joe Chip is trying to climb up the stairs.

>>25209311
Doesn't Dick always put a little bit at the end of all his books where everything is flat out explained?

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)05:07:29 No.25210010

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)05:07:29 No.25210010

>>25209311
all the good PKD books are gnostic fantasies about how the material world is ephemeral and it's actually its symbolic content that's essential

Anonymous
04/14/26(Tue)07:44:23 No.25210149

Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)07:44:23 No.25210149

>>25209373
>A Scanner Darkly was the last faithful adaption IMO
It was actually pretty damn close. They only trimmed a bit of his confession of sleeping with teenagers and seeing God, which he crammed in to almost all his work post 1970.

Anonymous
04/15/26(Wed)05:44:01 No.25211162

Anonymous 04/15/26(Wed)05:44:01 No.25211162

The time travel girl is such a weird inclusion. Spend several scenes introducing her and her powers only to have her be basically irrelevant for the entirety of the second half of the book. I know he churned these books out as fast as he could, but I feel he completely forgot about the trippy world bending time powers the moment after he introduced them.
Also the rollcall section at the beginning is complete ass.

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