{"id":22627,"date":"2026-09-26T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/ubik\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:49:59","slug":"ubik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/ubik\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: Ubik by Philip K. Dick \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed drip coffee.<br>Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name.<br>I am. I shall always be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long time since I&#8217;ve read any pkd. Plenty of twists &amp; turns between life &amp; half-life, psychics &amp; anti-psychics. Great sucker punch at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Ubik by Philip K. Dick \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed drip coffee.Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed. I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[898],"tags":[1664,1599],"post_format":[642],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","category-book","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-1599","post_format-post-format-status","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s57zFQ-ubik","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22628,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions\/22628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}