A SCANNER DARKLY. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. New Path uses group attack therapy to cure addiction to hallucinogenic Substance D (nicknamed "Death"), relentlessly reprograming the subject to obey authority. And New Path is apparently growing the flower from which Substance D is made, thus helping to perpetuate itself. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1979. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-333. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $6.95 on the front flap. (#172544).
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First edition so stated on copyright page.