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Nausea
novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
Foucault's Pendulum
1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco
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Ubik
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".

Contact
novel by Carl Sagan

The Man Who Was Thursday
1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1965 novel by Philip K. Dick

Valis
1981 novel by Philip K. Dick

Anathem
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.

The Wasp Factory
1984 novel by Iain Banks

Permutation City
1994 novel by Greg Egan
O Presidente Negro
1926 novel by Monteiro Lobato

A Maze of Death
1970 novel by Philip K. Dick

The Sea Lady
novel by H. G. Wells