When I was moving into my new studio, I unpacked a box that had a bunch of old 70s and 80s era Philip K. Dick books, some of which I hadn't read, and so I picked up A Scanner Darkly, which had the word "masterpiece" all over the cover... masterpiece perhaps, but at the very least, very good. It would, like >Blade Runner and Minority Report probably make a really great movie. It's about a near-future drug culture (1994! it was written in 1977) in which a mysterious, invisible organization enslaves people by addicting them to Substance D.

In the same pile was The Demolition Man, which Asimov calls a science fiction classic, and which I am reading now.

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