num_pages: 278
description: Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
language: English
title: A Scanner Darkly
titlecomplete: A Scanner Darkly
characters: Donna Hawthorne, Charles Freck, Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Bob Arctor
genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, American, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 99827
places: Los Angeles, California, Anaheim, California, Santa Ana, California
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Graoully d'Or
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Vintage