A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick – Part of our 2016 MindFuck season

February is Philip K. Dick Month in our MindFuck season and we’ll be plunging head-first into the mind bending insanity that is every Dick novel with A Scanner Darkly. Good Luck.

Substance D – otherwise known as Death – is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain’s two hemispheres, leading first to disorientation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.