 The novel also features an unconventional DJ, called Radio KCID, a science-fictional portrait of one of Jeter's friends, Philip K. Dick (the call sign is an anagram of DICK).KCID is an old man living in Rattown, a future L.A. slum; he has a small portable transmitter, which turns him into a mobile radio station.He mostly plays old records of German opera such as Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", an important element of the novel, but he also broadcasts pieces of news which mainstream media do not want to broadcast.