Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
“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, Time Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business deploying his teams of antipsychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are amb...
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“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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