Cover for Ubik
Novel

Ubik

1969

About this book

After a disastrous assignment, a group of specialists encounters messages from their employer and a world slipping into the past. An elusive commercial product may offer protection, but the boundaries between life, death, and reality refuse to stay fixed.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Dec 7, 1966

    Composition: no later than Dec 7, 1966

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Dec 7, 1966

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Dec 7, 1966

  3. 1969

    First published 1969

    Ubik · Doubleday

Textual relationships

Genealogy

  • IncorporatesWhat the Dead Men SayWhat the Dead Men Say was excerpted and adapted into the first chapter of Ubik.