His friends and housemates are all addicts, too. When Arctor tries to infiltrate the supply chain of a drug called Substance D, he becomes addicted to it – his own supplier, Donna, is the woman he loves. Its main character, undercover narcotics agent, Bob Arctor, lives in a California that feels straight out of the early ‘70s, although we’re told the novel is set in 1994. It’s paranoid, disturbing and dystopian, but it wasn’t a vision of the future – it was a memoir. DickĪ Scanner Darkly was Philip K Dick’s fortieth novel, and it’s one of his best-known works. And I vowed to write a novel about it sometime.” – Philip K. These were people maybe 18 and 19, and you know, it was like a vision of hell. I saw people who were reduced to a point where they couldn't complete a sentence…and this was permanent, this was for the rest of their lives. I mean, I saw even worse things than I put in A SCANNER DARKLY. “Everything in A SCANNER DARKLY I actually saw.
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