Takeaway: Is anyone better at writing paranoid fiction than Philip K Dick?
Philip K Dick was brilliant and deeply troubled. Which seems to make for a good science fiction writer. Ubik, a 1969 novel, is set in 1992, when psychic powers are common. Joe Chip works for a “˜prudence organization’. Prudence organizations specialize in helping people or businesses protect themselves from psychics. So they use anti-telepaths to protect people from having their minds read by telepaths or other anti-psychics to counter the variety of different psychic powers.
The other plot point you have to understand is “˜half-life’. In this future, when people die, if they can be preserved in time, they can live in “˜half-life’, a sort of preserved life of the mind. You cannot life forever this way, but your body is preserved and you can communicate with people outside your preservation chamber. But at some point you sort of fade out and are reincarnated.
There is basically no way to discuss this book without spoilers, so if you don’t want any spoilers for this 45 year old book, you should stop reading because I am going to disclose pretty much the whole book.
Summary: Cedar, the new Queen of TÃr na nÓg, is trying to adjust to her new life and new powers. But all the Unseen (the magical creatures of Earth) have started dying. 
Another fast-paced, well-written whodunit from JK Rowling. It’s been 8 months since Cormoran Strike solved the murder of model Lula Landry, and now an Owen Quine, an author of mild success, has gone missing. He ultimately turns up dead–in a gruesome scene that mirrors the ending of his latest to-be-published novel. That novel is a non-subtle attack on numerous celebrities in the publishing world, and the list of those depicted who may respond with murder is a long one. Strike and his assistant Robin meticulously gather the evidence in pursuit of a killer with an impressive ability for planning and forethought.
Summary: Very practical and biblical look at the way we are to handle the everyday small and large conflicts in our lives.
Summary: A skewering of some convenient targets.
Summary: A Woman wakes up to discover the Earth as she knows it is no longer, and the only hope of survival is an alien species that has questionable motives.