When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to trade, feeding them on children.
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business?deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in ?half-life,? a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter?s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.
When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to trade, feeding them on children.
the epic, completely true blue, (almost) holy quest of Debbie
Adams, S. J.
2011
A sixteen-year-old lesbian tries to get over a crush on her religious best friend by embarking on a "holy quest" with a couple of misfits who have invented a wacky, made-up faith called the Church of Blue.
