Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The Best of the SF Masterworks
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- Published: Oct 27 2022
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World War Terminus devastated the Earth. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is sent to 'retire', while he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of natural life.
The opportunity of a lifetime: kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things aren't that simple, and his assignment turns into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the hunter becomes the hunted . . .
Voted in a Locus poll as one of the 100 pre-1990 SF Novels, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep spawned two blockbuster movies. Philip K. Dick won multiple awards for his works, examining human identity, psychology, conspiracy and paranoia, challenging the idea of objective truth in a manner that remains relevant today.
'A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment' - Empire
'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' - The Sunday Times
Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
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The opportunity of a lifetime: kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things aren't that simple, and his assignment turns into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the hunter becomes the hunted . . .
Voted in a Locus poll as one of the 100 pre-1990 SF Novels, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep spawned two blockbuster movies. Philip K. Dick won multiple awards for his works, examining human identity, psychology, conspiracy and paranoia, challenging the idea of objective truth in a manner that remains relevant today.
'A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment' - Empire
'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' - The Sunday Times
Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
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- 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
Sophie Mackintosh
i PaperIn the ruins of World War Three, which decimated animal life and rendered the atmosphere radioactive, a bounty hunter is assigned to kill rogue androids. Dick's novel - the basis for the seminal 1982 film Blade Runner - is set in 1992, so it is reassuring to see that not all dire predictions come to pass, although a world in which it is difficult to distinguish the real from the artificial is spot-on