5. Ubik
The “ubik” substance in the novel, which comes in a spray can, might actually be
connected to a god or god-like being.
The word “ubik” comes from “ubique” which means “everywhere.”
God, or Ubik, is everywhere

6. Ubiquitous Computing “Ubiquitous" defined
“Existing or being everywhere at the same time,"
“Constantly encountered"
“Widespread"
Ubiquitous implies that technology is everywhere
We use it all the time

7. What is an Ubik?

8. Theme
Friends, this is clean up time and we’re discounting all our silent, electric Ubiks by this much money.
Yes, we’re throwing away the blue-book. And remember: every Ubik on our lot has been used only as directed.
Try to guess the theme or motif

9. Theme
Buying and Selling
Making money
Travel Vehicles/Machines

10. First Paragraph
At three thirty A. M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of Runciter Associates in New York City. That started vidphones ringing. The Runciter organization had lost track of too many of Holli’s psis during the last two months; this added disappearance wouldn’t do.
What are two other themes?

11. Disappearance or Losing Downward Fall
Themes or Motifs
Time (motif)
Disappearance or Losing
Downward Fall

12. Character: Glen Runciter
Receives the vidscreen with news about the inertials
Miss Dorn reported it
Miss Dorn followed the inertial to Green River, Utah
Followed the inertial to Bonds of Erotic Polymorphic Experience

13. Character: Edie Dorn
Follow inertials
Reports them
Works for Runciter

14. Works for Runciter Speaker Narrates the action Protagonist
Character: Joe Chip
Protagonist
Works for Runciter
Speaker
Narrates the action

15. Character Dole Melipone?
Missing Character
Hollis (member)
Has a scramble pattern surrounding the mind

16. Herbert Schoenheit von Vogelsang
Works at the
Moratorium
Tabby-fur

17. Flora and Runciter

18. Story Line Told from the viewpoint of Joe Chip
who works for an agency of "anti-psis"
Anti-psis stop telepaths invading other people's privacy
This "prudence organization" is run by Runciter
Assistance of Flora (in moratorium)
Died physically but is kept in a state of "half-life"
Runciter communicates with her.

19. Telepaths are corporate technology spys
Runciter’s agency's energy is dedicated to fighting a rival organization of telepaths
Rival Telepath’s leader- Ray Hollis
Telepaths uses its powers to carry out corporate espionage and cause trouble
Guess one more theme

20. Possible Themes Good Versus Evil A Watching Panoptic Eye
Private versus Public Technology Information

21. Runciter takes Joe Chip and the top operatives in his organization to the moon
Joe Chip -offered a big, well-paying job taking on telepaths.
Stanton Mick- The strangest /loudest nose ever seen.
Stanton Mick is not a man at all, but a "self-destruct humanoid bomb"