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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

85.7% complete
1968
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2010
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Androids - Fiction
Europe - History - 1848-1849
Revolutions - Europe
Science fiction
Science fiction, American
22 Chapters
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Copyright © 1968 by Philip K. Dick
TO TIM AND SERENA POWERS,
MY DEAREST FRIENDS
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
May contain spoilers
And, feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee.
Comments may contain spoilers
Finally got around to reading this. Blade Runner is a great movie but very loosly based on the book.
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 26-Mar-2023

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 28-May-1996
Del Rey
Paperback A
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Date Issued:
28-May-1996
Format:
Paperback A
Cover Price:
$14.00
Pages*:
244
Read:
Once
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Internal ID:
1518
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-40447-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-40447-3
Printing:
21
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Bruce Jensen  - Cover Artist
David Stevenson - Cover Design
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 has 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.

Emigrants to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women.  Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans to 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 when 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

PHILIP K. DICK was born in Chicago in 1928.  He attended the University of California at Berkley, but dropped out rather than participate in manditory ROTC training.  Remaining in California, he began writing professionally in 1952, ultimately producing thrity-six novels and five short story collections.  He won the 1962 Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle, and the 1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Flow My Tears the Policeman Said.  Dick died in 1982 of heart failure following a stroke.
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First published in Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd by Norsrilia Press
First Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition: June 1996
Twenty-first printing based on the number line
Canada: $16.50

Introduction copyright © 1975 by Roger Zelazney

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Author(s)

Philip K Dick  
Birth: 16 Dec 1928 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: 02 Mar 1982 Santa Ana, California, USA

Awards

1969Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaNebula Award - Best Novel Nominee
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