A Scanner Darkly
★★★★★Read Jan 1, 1995
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.
Goodreads readers give it 4.02★, from 113,670 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.0, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it more than most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Dystopia, Classics, Cyberpunk, Drugs, Fantasy.
Won British Science Fiction Association Award 1978, Graoully d'Or 1979, Tähtivaeltaja Award 1991.
Also nominated for Locus Award 1978, John W. Campbell Memorial Award 1978.