![]() ![]() ![]() In the “Author’s Note” that follows the book, PKD states “there is no moral in this novel it is not bourgeois it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled it just tells what the consequences were.” Written as a response to his own experiences with the drug culture of the late sixties, A Scanner Darkly clearly stands apart from the rest of PKD’s oeuvre. Dick, I have to say that this one was quite a different reading experience. Although placed in same genre as PKD’s other works, it becomes tricky to label A Scanner Darkly as a work of “science fiction.” This could be due to the novel having very few sci-fi elements, or the fact that it hits very close to home in realistically capturing the growing epidemic of drug addiction. ![]() While I quite liked my third outing with Mr. I fell in love with his masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and quite enjoyed his little science fiction work The Variable Man. Since I was in the mood for something off the beaten path, I decided to go grab some Dick-Philip K. Choosing the next book to read can be a daunting task. ![]()
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