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'The fact that what Dick is writing about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation - this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges.' Ursula K. Le Guin
'No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations' Brian W. Aldiss
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Philip K Dick’s visionary forerunner to the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ that became the film Bladerunner, tells the story of Louis Rosen and his love for the daughter of his business partner and the truth about where his life-like androids might end up…
Making an animatronic replica of Abraham Lincoln has never been easier.
Finding someone to buy it is the hard part.
Louis Rosen’s firm, the Frauenzimmer Piano Company, builds electronic organs and upright pianos. Deciding to expand the business the firm get ambitious, building exact reconstructions of famous personalities.
Sam K. Barrows, a lunar real estate tycoon wants to repopulate the moon with their creations, and he’s the only one rich enough to buy them. As the Lincoln model develops a fault and Rosen begins to fall for the daughter of his business partner, things go from bad to worse and his mental health rapidly begins to deteriorate.
‘We Can Build You’ bears striking similarities in Dick’s later novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ which was later transformed into Ridley Scott’s extraordinary science fiction film classic ‘Bladerunner’.
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As mentioned by other reviewers, there are some interesting similarities to Philip K. Dick's "Do androids dream of electric sheep". For example, a few corporation names are the same. It's easy to imagine the two stories occuring at the same time or at least in the same world. For me, it's hard to tell what the author's intentions was in doing this, but perhaps one novel started out as a prelude or sequel to the other.
The plot is probably less 'deep' than tytpically expected from this author, but the story is still thought provoking and makes a thouroghly good read.
As a fan of Dick it feels strange to write a negative review but I would not agree that this is a good book to start with. Try 'A Maze of Death' or 'Flow my Tears...' if you prefer plot development to over-indulgent psycho-babble.
For the unitiated I would recomment this as a good starting point for PKD. The novel relates the story of a family business that creates a simulacrum of Abraham Lincoln. It believes itself to be AL but is also aware of the fact that it is existing in a distant age. Of course, a rival corporation soon constructs its own simulacrum...
To say anything else would be to spoil the book. Buy it, read it, think and enjoy.
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