The Resource A scanner darkly, Philip K. Dick
A scanner darkly, Philip K. Dick
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Resource Information
The item A scanner darkly, Philip K. Dick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780547572178
- Label
- A scanner darkly
- Title
- A scanner darkly
- Statement of responsibility
- Philip K. Dick
- Subject
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- trueDrug addicts
- Didactic fiction
- trueDissociative identity disorder
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse
- trueDrug abuse
- Drug abuse -- Fiction
- trueDrug dealers
- trueDrug enforcement agents
- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueNear future
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueUndercover operations
- trueBooks to movies
- Didactic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick
- Summary
- A drug dealer of the future periodically moves away from his spaced-out world to become an informer for narcotics agents until he becomes unable to separate his two personalities
- Award
- BSFA Award for Best Novel, 1978.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 008732
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dick, Philip K
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A scanner darkly, Philip K. Dick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 903921
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780547572178
- Lccn
- 2011015943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780547572178
- (OCoLC)694829931
- Label
- A scanner darkly, Philip K. Dick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 903921
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Extent
- 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780547572178
- Lccn
- 2011015943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780547572178
- (OCoLC)694829931
Subject
- trueDrug addicts
- Didactic fiction
- trueDissociative identity disorder
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse
- trueDrug abuse
- Drug abuse -- Fiction
- trueDrug dealers
- trueDrug enforcement agents
- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueNear future
- trueScience fiction
- Science fiction
- trueScience fiction
- trueScience fiction classics
- trueUndercover operations
- trueBooks to movies
- Didactic fiction
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