Ubik - Philip K. Dick

I‘ve read a fair few Dicks in my time, and his stuff is always worth reading. The prose style is functional, but the level of imagination and the brain-bending ideas more than make up for it.

Set in the far-flung future of, er, 1992, Ubik riffs on ideas about death and time travel to marvellously entertaining effect. I particularly liked the spoof ads for various products named Ubik that appear at the start of each chapter, usually ending with the disclaimer “Ubik is 100% safe when applied as directed”.