Talk:Ubik

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[edit] Further deception

I think the summary needs to take into account the final pages, in which Runciter discovers his coins to be changing face (in an obvious parallel to what happened to Chip), in as much as this implies that Runciter is himself mistaken about being alive and not in a half-life, and possibly wired into the group as well. --maru (talk) contribs 03:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

My impression upon reading the novel was that "Ubik" represented God, or salvation through God. The final Ubik "ad copy" reinforces this idea by saying "I am everywhere". Am I wrong? --71.125.20.241 05:11, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes you are wrong - the ubik is the ubik - it is a genuine artifact of PKD. If dick wanted to talk about the conventional conception of god he would have done it - the ubik "mythos" is something more elaborate than that. To Marudubshinki : I think that these pages are a literary mistake on the part of dick - they are awkward - not needed. I 'm pretty sure he regretted them himself - it is a cheap ending to an otherwise very original novel. Unlike the turnover in the middle of the book, when one figures out what is going on really, these pages have no force. Or maybe they have :-)

The Ubik 16:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)