Metaphysical fiction novels

novel by Jean-Paul Sartre

1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco

Ubik ( ) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette "What the Dead Men Say".

novel by Carl Sagan

1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton

1965 novel by Philip K. Dick

1981 novel by Philip K. Dick

Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism.

1984 novel by Iain Banks

1994 novel by Greg Egan

1926 novel by Monteiro Lobato

1970 novel by Philip K. Dick

novel by H. G. Wells