Ubik: The Screenplay

DICK, Philip K.

ISBN 10: 0911169067 / ISBN 13: 9780911169065

Published by Corroboree Pr, 1985

About this Item

1st trade edition, 1985 with colour illustrations by Doug Rice. Dust jacket protected in removable clear film with small loss to film only near spine head. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ubik: The Screenplay
• Publisher: Corroboree Pr
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0911169067
• ISBN 13: 9780911169065
• Binding: Hardcover

About this title

Synopsis

The screenplay to the seminal sf novel, out of print for more than two decades.

From the Back Cover

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, Time
In 1974, Philip K. Dick was commissioned to write a screenplay based on his novel Ubik. 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.

PHILIP K. DICK (1928 1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary authors of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.
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