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A Scanner Darkly

BSFA Award, 1979

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781857988475

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 14th October 1999

Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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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.

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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
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