Blade Runner: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)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 |
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User Review - Castlelass - LibraryThingScience fiction dystopian novel set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco in 2021. The earth has been ravaged by World War Terminus and many survivors have emigrated to colonies on other planets. The ... Read full review
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User Review - eas7788 - LibraryThingWow, did not like this. How can a prescient sci fi writer be so unimaginative about women and gender, and about race (and any other differences)? There are interesting elements like the idea of ... Read full review
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| Title | Blade Runner: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) A Del Rey book Volume 35047 of Ballantine Books Blade Runner 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 |
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