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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.

Read by Paul Giamatti

(p) 2006 Penguin Random House LLC

Critics Review

The best book of the year - extraordinary
BrianAldiss
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
My literary hero
Fay Weldon
The most brilliant SF mind on any planet
Rolling Stone Magazine
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first
Terry Gilliam
The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world
John Brunner
Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream
Roberto Bolaño
Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise
Michael Moorcock
In all his work he was astonishingly intimate, self exposed, and very dangerous. He was the funniest SF writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying. His dreads were our own, spoken as we could not have spoken them
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Paul Giamatti
Series S.F. MASTERWORKS
Duration 9 hours and 15 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409148999
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Science fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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