Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
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- Published: Mar 29 2010
- 196 x 128mm
- ISBN: 9780575094185
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon,
he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.
Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ...
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he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.
Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ...
Press Reviews
- Sunday Times
One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac
- Fay Weldon
My literary hero
- Terry Gilliam
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first
- Empire
A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment