A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick5/29/2023 ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Author Tim Powers, a friend of the sci-fi legend, told Orange Coast in 2009. He was just this guy going to Trader Joe’s.” What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.” Nothing changed it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. The novel’s local references include an Anaheim Lions Club meeting, a Fiddlers Three coffee shop in Santa Ana, and this trippy vision: “Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. This one is about a narcotics agent with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department who goes undercover using a high-tech “scramble suit” that disguises his identity. was the ideal grow box for his paranoia-infused fiction. ![]() Olling Stone calls Dick “the most brilliant sci-fi mind on any planet.” On Earth, Dick lived in Fullerton and Santa Ana for the last decade of his life, and O.C. ![]()
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