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Philip K Dick

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English
Gollancz
14 August 2012
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 disorentation 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.

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Imprint:   Gollancz
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 132mm,  Width: 200mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   206g
ISBN:   9781780220420
ISBN 10:   1780220421
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

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For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam * My literary hero * Fay Weldon * One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times *


  • Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1978 (UK)
  • Shortlisted for John W Campbell Award 1978.
  • Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1979 (UK)
  • Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1979.

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