A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
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Mind- and reality-bending drugs feature again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly is the novel that cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died through drug misuse. Nevertheless it's blackly farcical, full of comic- surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the
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Manufacturer: Gollancz
Release date: 14 October 1999
ISBN-10 : 1857988477 | ISBN-13: 9781857988475
Release date: 14 October 1999
ISBN-10 : 1857988477 | ISBN-13: 9781857988475
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