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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  213 reviews
Sales Rank: 8580
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0345404475
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345404473
ASIN: 0345404475
Publication Date: May 28, 1996
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"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
--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
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 Great Book November 23, 2008
Awesome book, if you like Blade runner you'll love this. (I'm assuming most people saw the movie before reading the book)
Wonderful book November 5, 2008
Excellent book -- one of about 15 novels that maintains a place on our shelves (next to about 200 nonfiction titles). Don't make judgements based on the video Coca-cola advertisement version ... very different.
perfect September 22, 2008
This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.
Dreaming in Binary: you'll either love it or hate it September 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I remember reading this 15 years ago and not caring for it, but on a whim I dusted it off and gave it another go. I'm glad I did.
It's no secret that this book is the inspirational source for the movie Blade Runner. I suspect most people will read this having already seen movie, and will quite likely be let down by the book -- which almost certainly was my original reaction. This is understandable, but to actually "like" this book it is necessary to avoid this trap and basically forget the movie and just read the book as a stand-alone story. The movie takes large chunks of the book's plot, but uses none of the themes (or at best just touches on them lightly.) Likewise, things that are throw-away lines in the book are major plot points in the movie, and vice-versa.
The plot of this book is almost secondary to it's multi-textured, interwoven themes: empathy, the value of life, and what it is to be "human." PKD raises some interesting points and makes some interesting observations, but the answers to these concepts are ultimately left to the reader.
PKD's writing style does take some getting used to, and Electric Sheep is a very good example of this: his prose is rushed, (deliberately) unpolished, and often descriptively spartain. Since he wrote this in 1969, aspects of this may also seem dated: it's set in a post-WW3 dystopia with a still-active Soviet Union lurking in the background. I can forgive all of these, but others might not be so lenient.
My advice is to try to get past any "obvious" stumbling blocks and just give it a go.
 It's okay. July 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not the best stuff but not the worst. World would be less without it though.
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