Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed.

The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author

The views expressed by Me are in no way endorsed by CBS any of its allied companies or in fact Me.

All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us grew up playing the same games.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.