A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K.
Dick about an undercover narcotics agent whose identity fractures from drug use, exploring surveillance, addiction, and the dissolution of self.
The 2006 film adaptation used rotoscope animation to capture the story's hallucinatory quality.
The title comes from 1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see through a glass, darkly.
- science fictionSpeculative fiction with technological themes
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- identityWho someone is
Philip K. Dick · identity crisis · undercover · double life · addiction · dystopia · Keanu Reeves · rotoscope · animated · California · Orange County · narcotics · living death · hallucination · altered states · split personality · drug abuse · future
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