''Dr. Identity'' (2007) is the fourth book and first novel by American author D. Harlan Wilson. Set in a

dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

n, mediatized future where people

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themselves with

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lookalikes, the novel focuses on the foils of an English professor (Dr. 'Blah), his psychotic

(Dr. Identity), and their flight from the agents of the Law, especially the "Papanazi." Like much of Wilson's work, ''Dr. Identity'' is distinguished by its ultraviolence, metanarration, and critique of media technology. It is the first novel in the Scikungfi Trilogy along with the forthcoming ''Codename Prague'' (2009) and ''The Kyoto Man'' (2010).

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