Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who has to "retire" (i.e. kill) six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids.
Author | Philip K. Dick |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1968 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 210 |
OCLC | 34818133 |
Followed by | Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human |
The book served as the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner and, even though some aspects of the novel were changed, many elements and themes from it were used in the film's 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049.