Ubik
Synopsis
1992: Humanity now enjoys a range of psychic abilities. Glen Runciter runs his own organization employing inertials - those capable of blocking telepathic and precognitive waves - to enforce people's privacy. When he and a hand-picked team travel to the moon in order to secure a business magnate's lunar facilities, they walk straight into an explos… 1992: Humanity now enjoys a range of psychic abilities. Glen Runciter runs his own organization employing inertials - those capable of blocking telepathic and precognitive waves - to enforce people's privacy. When he and a hand-picked team travel to the moon in order to secure a business magnate's lunar facilities, they walk straight into an explosive trap. And now Runciter is dead. Or is he? SOMEONE died in the bomb blast. But his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from him. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out...
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