A Scanner Darkly (Paperback, Reissue)

A marrow-freezing morality play set in a 1994 California. The central fact of life is drugs: every hard drug in the current lexicon plus Substance D - "Death" to its friends - which progressively impairs coordination between the brain's two hemispheres. The hero is an addict, a nark engaged in surreptitious electronic "scanning" of himself and friends, and - it slowly becomes clear - a patsy in some dreadful hidden game. Dick has bitten off an awful lot here. Much of the straightforward narration is theatrically bad, yet dialogue and internal monologue carry a cruel (and cruelly funny) conviction. And the larger plot is brilliantly hinged upon a consciousness split by two insanities: the Kafkaesque charade of secret self-surveillance and the terrible advance of irreversible brain damage. Flawed, almost too grim to take, but stunningly realized. (Kirkus Reviews)

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

General

Imprint:	Gollancz
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Millennium SF Masterworks S
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	1977
Authors:	Philip K. Dick
Dimensions:	199 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	217
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-1-85798-847-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels
LSN:	1-85798-847-7
Barcode:	9781857988475

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