{"id":553,"date":"2009-02-17T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-02-17T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T08:01:00","slug":"ubik-by-pkd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/ubik-by-pkd\/","title":{"rendered":"UBIK by PKD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/3267900855\/\" title=\"Ubik Front Cover by M I I Z Z Z A R D, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3325\/3267900855_38b3937c3c_b.jpg\" width=\"597\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Ubik Front Cover\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I recently read the last nine tenths of UBIK by Philip K. Dick while laying in bed hungover, which only amplified the creepiness of its decaying, solipsistic world.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/3267901791\/\" title=\"Ubik Back Cover by M I I Z Z Z A R D, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3305\/3267901791_e232e74f03_b.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Ubik Back Cover\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One thing I had never noticed before is how strange the clothing of future-1992 is. With so many things going on, its an easy thing to miss, but lets look at some passages:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beside [the chopper] stood a beetle-like individual wearing a Continental outfit: tweed toga, loafers, crimson sash and a purple airplane-propelled beanie.&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom Chapter Seven, Paragraph 52.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; in gay pinstripe clown-style pajamas, Joe Chip hazily seated himself &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom Chapter Three, Paragraph One.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hammond was wearing &#8220;green felt knickers, gray golf socks, badger-hide open-midriff blouse and imitation patent-leather pumps&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom Chapter Eight, Paragraph 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read the last nine tenths of UBIK by Philip K. Dick while laying in bed hungover, which only amplified the creepiness of its decaying, solipsistic world. One thing I had never noticed before is how strange the clothing of future-1992 is. With so many things going on, its an easy thing to miss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-reviews","tag-philip-k-dick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}