Blade Runner

Philip K. Dick

Ballantine Books, 1982 - Fiction - 216 pages

Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back--with lethal force.

Praise for Philip K. Dick

"[Dick] sees all the sparkling--and terrifying--possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from."--Rolling Stone

"A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."--The New York Times

Contents

• Chapter ONE: 1
• Chapter TWO: 12
• Chapter THREE: 23

About the author

Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1928, Dick worked in radio and studied briefly at the University of California at Berkeley before embarking on his writing career. His first novel, Solar Lottery, was published in 1955. In 1963, Dick won the Hugo Award for his novel, The Man in the High Castle. He also wrote a series of futuristic tales about artificial creatures on the loose; notable of these was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was later adapted into film as Blade Runner. Dick also published several collections of short stories. He died of a stroke in Santa Ana, California, in 1982.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blade Runner; Volume 35047 of Ballantine Books; Blade Runner; Del Rey Book; Del Rey; Movie-tie-in edition
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1982
• ISBN: 0345350472, 9780345350473
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General