num_pages: 278
description: Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses.In this award-winning novel, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Dick is at turns caustically funny and somberly contemplative, fashioning a novel that is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
language: English
title: A Scanner Darkly
titlecomplete: A Scanner Darkly
characters: Charles Freck, Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Bob Arctor, Donna Hawthorne
genres: Classics, American, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 99813
places: Santa Ana, California, Los Angeles, California, Anaheim, 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