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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author) "A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard ..." (more)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (24 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752864300
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752864303
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 180,616 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover (Import) |  Paperback (New Ed) |  Library Binding (Reprint) |  Hardcover (Large Print) |  Audio Cassette (Abridged,Audiobook) |  All Editions


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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a book that most people think they remember, and almost always get more or less wrong. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner took a lot from it, and threw a lot away; wonderful in itself, it is a flash thriller where Dick's novel is a sober meditation. As we all know, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is stalking a group of androids returned from space with short life spans and murder on their minds--where Scott's Deckard was Harrison Ford, Dick's is a financially over-stretched municipal employee with bills to pay and a depressed wife. In a world where most animals have died, and pet-keeping is a social duty, he can only afford a robot imitation, unless he gets a big financial break. The genetically warped "chickenhead" John Isidore has visions of a tomb-world where entropy has finally won. And everyone plugs in to the spiritual agony of Mercer, whose suff