Books like Ubik
In 1992 Joe Chip works for a firm that hires out people who can block telepaths and precogs from spying on its clients. When a job on the Moon goes wrong, the world around him starts to slip backwards in time.
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VALIS
Horselover Fat, a California science fiction writer who is also the narrator Phil Dick, believes a pink beam of light from a vast living intelligence has fired knowledge into his head, and sets out with his friends to find out what it wants.
A Scanner Darkly
Bob Arctor, an undercover narcotics agent in Orange County, lives among the users of Substance D, and his own department, which knows him only by a code name, assigns him to watch himself.
Inverted World
On reaching the age of six hundred and fifty miles, Helward Mann leaves the crèche of the city called Earth, which is winched along rails across a hostile land to stay near a moving point its people call the optimum, and joins the guild that lays the track.
Yesteryear
Natalie Heller Mills, a traditional-lifestyle influencer with eight million followers, wakes up in a life that looks like her own but is not, on a rustic farm in 1855 with no electricity, strange children and a husband who is suddenly a real farmer, and she sets out to learn what has happened.
The Lathe of Heaven
A man in a near-future Portland discovers he can reshape reality through his dreams, and a psychiatrist tries to exploit the power to fix the world.
The Third Policeman
A young man who has spent his inheritance on the works of de Selby, a crackpot philosopher, helps plan a robbery to pay for his commentary on him, and finds himself in a strange parish whose policemen are obsessed with bicycles.
Gnomon
In a near-future Britain run by the System, which watches everything, Diana Hunter, a dissident, dies under interrogation, and Inspector Mielikki Neith, going through the recordings of her mind, finds in them the stories of four other people.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Marion Wheeler runs a secret department that contains ideas which erase themselves from memory, and fights an enemy no one can remember with notes to herself and drugs that let her see what she has forgotten.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
The Light Brigade
Dietz joins the corporate army after the Blink wipes São Paulo off the map, and soldiers are broken down into light to be beamed to the front, and Dietz starts arriving at the wrong times.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
Roadside Picnic
Years after unseen visitors stopped briefly on Earth and left behind six Zones full of lethal anomalies and priceless artefacts, Red Schuhart makes his living as a stalker, slipping into the Zone outside his town to bring out what he can sell.