A Scanner Darkly

Yet more painful mind-wrenching schizophrenic literature by PK Dick. Scanner Darkly is barely even sci-fi, just a story about paranoid druggies hooked on some a drug, undercover cops trying to find the source. The wonderful thing about Scanner Darkly is that Dick once again communicates the awful fear of not knowing what is real, blurring of identity between two people. The personal message at the end is pretty moving, his explanation that he's writing about his own friends who had their lives screwed up.