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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
--John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .
They even built humans.
Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from".
--Paul Williams
Rolling Stone
Book Details
- Publisher: Del Rey Books
- Publish Date: May 28th, 1996
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780345404473
- Categories: • Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction
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Matt Zoller Seitz is a film and television critic.
RT @lauren_wilford: have always thought that the title of the Philip K. Dick’s Blade Runner novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”,…
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Just finished reading Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968). Great novel. Hope someone makes a film adaptation of it some day...
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Here's the next Speculative Fiction Studies video devoted to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This focuses on an episode entirely missing in the film adaptation but central to the novel, a fake police station staffed by androids https://youtu.be/BSstGbPfVwc
Praise for this book
"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John Brunner
"A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."--The New York Times
What people are saying
Matt Zoller Seitz is a film and television critic.
RT @lauren_wilford: have always thought that the title of the Philip K. Dick’s Blade Runner novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”,…
#Nihilism (https://t.co/hxiAgolrSm) | #NihilismAndTechnology (https://t.co/WDhUgaDebc) | #PoWE (https://t.co/zgXCok7NmN) | Note: now also at https://t.co/srnHWRqbMo
Just finished reading Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968). Great novel. Hope someone makes a film adaptation of it some day...