Ubik (1969)

Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer Eldritch is another one). Ubik is the first novel to introduce spiritual elements that will culminate in his last novels VALIS, the Divine Invasion and the Transmigration of Timothy Archer. According to movie industry rumor Ubik could be the next big PKD movie project. Philip K. Dick himself wrote a screenplay for Ubik in 1974 but it was never made into a movie. PKD was hoping that it would by sending "the novel to the agent of Victoria Principal- whom he revered - in hope that she'd wind up reading it."(Tim Powers in the introduction to Ubik: The Screenplay). Ubik was expanded and adapted from the short story "What the Dead Men Say" published in Worlds of Tomorrow in 1964.
Ubik is one of the most published books of Philip K Dick in the world.

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American Editions

Doubleday 1969, 202 pages, $4.50, hard cover
Doubleday Book Club Edition 1969, 202 pages, hard cover
Dell 1970, 208 pages, 95c, paperback
Bantam 1977, 212 pages, $1.75, paperback
Gregg Press 1979, 202 pages, 10.95, hard cover, illustrated
Daw 1983, 176 pages, $2.50, paperback
Vintage 1991, 191 pages, $10.00, trade paperback
Thorndike 2001 (large print), hard cover
In "Counterfeit Unrealities", SF Book Club Edition 2002, $14.99, 724 pages, hard cover
In "Four Novels of the 1960s", Library of America, 2007, 900 pages, $35, hard cover
Mariner 2012, 224 pages, $13.95, trade paperback

British Editions

Rapp & Whiting 1970, 202 pages, hard cover
Panther 1973, 191 pages, 35p, paperback
Granada 1978, 191 pages, 75p, paperback
Granada 1984, 191 pages, £1.95, paperback (same cover as 1978 edition)
Grafton 1988, 191 pages, £2.50, paperback
Grafton 1992, 183 pages, £4.99, paperback
Harper Collins 1998, 192 pages, paperback
Gollancz 2000, 210 pages, £6.99, paperback
In "Five Great Novels" Gollancz 2004, 841 pages, £12.99
Gollancz 2006, 224 pages, £7.99, paperback
in "Five Great Novels" Gollancz 2008, 841 pages, £14.99
Phoenix 2012, 224 pages, £7.99, trade paperback
Gollancz 2012, SF Masterworks Series, 224 pages, £7.99, trade paperback

Cover Gallery


Doubleday, 1969	SFBCE, 1969	Dell, 1970	Rapp and Whiting, 1970	Panther, 1973

Bantam, 1977	Granada, 1978	Gregg Press, 1979	Daw, 1983	Grafton, 1988

Vintage, 1991	Grafton, 1992	Harper and Collins, 1998	Gollancz, 2000	Thorndike, 2001

SFBCE, 2002	Gollancz, 2004	Gollancz, 2006	Library of America, 2007	Gollancz, 2008

Gollancz, 2012	Mariner, 2012	Phoenix, 2012