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
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209 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 21, 2008 Type: User Review |
Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More
Androids is my favorite sci-fi book of all time & is the inspiration for one of the best movies of all time, Blade Runner. The movie & book are very different. Androids deals with future competing religions, the extinction of all animal life &...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
Enjoyable if abstract vision of the future
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows a bounty hunter working for the San Francisco police in the year 2021. This particular bounty hunter doesn't track down humans, but rather androids. If this sounds familiar at all, it might be because...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
Quality Read
Having watched Blade Runner before reading this, I feel that my perspective throughout the book was a bit tainted, but I enjoyed it. It's a solid read if you enjoy science fiction, if I do say so myself.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Hit me with a rock - this is NOT Blade Runner!
If you think you know what this book is about because you've seen the movie Blade Runner, you are mistaken. Only the character names and some of the settings / situations were lifted from this book for the movie. As in most books, there is a lot...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
good
Philip K Dick did very well on this book. I was a little dissapointed though in the fact that the retirement of the Nexus 6 was straight to the point and quick unlike the movie Blade Runner where there was more suspense. But with the exception of...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 17, 2008 Type: User Review |
Do Androids Drem of Electric Sheep?
I loved this book. It was so different from the film, Blade Runner, which was loosely based on the book and entertaining in its own right. It showed a post apocalyptic time that answered many of the questions the film posed. In this book Deckard...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Pretty good
With very few exceptions, literary visions of the future are bleak and dystopian. Science fiction literature it seems wants to instill fear into the minds of its readers, or at least make the reader extremely cautious to the dangers of "technology...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
And then THIS suddenly happened! And then THIS happened, and then it was over!
Coming off "Blade Runner", I expected the book to be a masterpiece, with deeper philosophical insight. I knew from the start the vast amount of differences from book and movie. And quite frankly, they are separate stories.
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
An interesting read
Basically, the book explores the theme of empathy, how humans sympathize with one another and even with animals, but androids are cruel (experimenting with spiders by clipping off their legs) and self-centered (they don't form alliances, always...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 17, 2008 Type: User Review |
Rent Bladerunner instead!
A perfect Sci-Fi classic! Funny thing is the book was awful! It's the first time I thought the screenplay was better! The movie story and dialog are much better.
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1.00/5 |
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