A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

Dick, Philip K

ISBN 10: 1780220421 / ISBN 13: 9781780220420

Published by W&N, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Scanner Darkly (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
• Publisher: W&N
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780220421
• ISBN 13: 9781780220420
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 210 grams

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Synopsis

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Review

Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. 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 time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk