A Scanner Darkly


Have just finished P.K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. It was like taking an extended acid trip back to the '60s.

Some interesting "sci-fi" technology was introduced with this novel, but the focus was more on the twisted tale of a narcotics agent that becomes a drug addict, and is assigned to spy ... on himself. Identity and drugs become central problems in this story.

As usual to PKD, the story was humorous, and thought-provoking, and ... incomplete. Yes, my friend Ryan is correct -- Dick introduces quite a few tantalizing story lines and subplots in his novels, but never completes them!

Nevertheless, I still liked the story. A Scanner Darkly was PKD's first book to be optioned as a movie, but the original producers let the option lapse several years back. Now that his stories have become staples in the sci-fi movie genre, apparently somehow has picked the option back up. I hear that A Scanner Darkly movie is in pre-production, and Keanu Reeves will play the main character. Whoa!

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Posted: Sat - April 3, 2004 at 05:36 PM

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