Do androids dream of electric sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Paperback, 1968

Collection

Status

Available

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner 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 built 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 �The most...… (more)

Publication

New York : Ballantine Books, 1996, c1968.

ISBN

0345404475 / 9780345404473

Pages

244

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1968
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