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A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick

A Scanner Darkly By Philip K Dick

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick


Summary

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures.

A Scanner Darkly Summary

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

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.

A Scanner Darkly Reviews

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times *
My literary hero * Fay Weldon *
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam *

About Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Additional information

GOR001369015
9781857988475
1857988477
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
19991014
224
Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1979 (UK) Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1978 (UK)
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