Do androids dream of electric sheep? /
Dick, Philip K.
Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick. - 2017 Del Rey Trade paperback edition. - 224 pages ; 22 cm.
"Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House"--Title page verso. "Orignially published in paperback by Doubleday and Company, Inc., in 1968"--Title page verso.
Grim and foreboding, a masterpiece ahead of its time, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner. 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 retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
9780345404473 0345404475
96096117
Androids--Fiction
Bounty hunters--Fiction
Science fiction
PS3554.I3 / D57 2017
813/.54
Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick. - 2017 Del Rey Trade paperback edition. - 224 pages ; 22 cm.
"Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House"--Title page verso. "Orignially published in paperback by Doubleday and Company, Inc., in 1968"--Title page verso.
Grim and foreboding, a masterpiece ahead of its time, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner. 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 retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
9780345404473 0345404475
96096117
Androids--Fiction
Bounty hunters--Fiction
Science fiction
PS3554.I3 / D57 2017
813/.54