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Ubik is grossly caricaturistic �� a smart projection of contemporary absurdity into the future�� In this colourful dystopia the future is rather preposterous than bleak�� Gorgeous madness��
Abilities and counter abilities�� Talents and anti-talents�� Opposites must be balanced��

The anti-psi factor is a natural restoration of ecological balance. One insect learns to fly, so another learns to build a web to trap him.

There are psionic talents possessing paranormal abilities of all sorts and there are inertials capable to nullify those abilities��
There are the living, the dead and half-lifers�� Half-lifers are those who died but their brain activity is sustained for a time being so they dwell in their own solipsistic worlds their twilight consciousness creates��

But, he thought, this is projection on my part. It isn’t the universe which is being entombed by layers of wind, cold, darkness and ice; all this is going on within me, and yet I seem to see it outside. Strange, he thought. Is the whole world inside me? Engulfed by my body? When did that happen? It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself. The uncertainty which I feel, the slowing down into entropy �� that’s the process, and the ice which I see is the result of the success of the process.

Entropy is omnipotent and omnipresent and there is no way to escape.