This was my favorite novel in the book: Four Novels of the 1960s. (The novels are The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? and Ubik.
Ubik is set in a world of corporate psychic espionage. Joe Chip the main character tests potential inertials--people who can negate the powers of psychics for Runciter Associates. On an assignment on the moon with 11 inertials, the group is attacked and Runcitor is seemingly killed. Everyone else escapes, seemingly unaffected. But are they really?
There's an intriguing plotline concerning cyrogenics. Runciter consults his wife who is in half-life, a kind of hibernation. I also liked how people had coin-operated apartment doors, showers, refrigerator doors, and the refrigerator contents. Joe Chip is low on money and wouldn't even be able to get out of his apartment without help (and coins) of his associates.
It can be hard to describe Dick's plots as well as his themes of what it means to be human and what is reality.
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