Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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“The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.”
–John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece yet to be of its time.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Persons who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .
They even built humans.
Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from right men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Planet. But when androids didn’t want to be identified, they just blended in.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned gift hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
“[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that additional authors shy away from.”
–Paul Williams
Rolling Stone
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I have to say this book had a some what weak tale line. This is a very recycled tale line that has been used in so many, longs drug store quality paper backs. This Just take place to be one that had an imaginative setting and decent dialoged between characters. This book is better then most of its class but still, there are betters out there.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
We are told not more than that this “one of the best books ever written by man”, comparable presumably, then, to The Odyssey, The Bible, Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Walden, Critique of Pure Reason, The Sun Also Rises, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Let’s assume, but, out of hand, for the sake of argument, that it really is “one of the best books ever written by man”: How does it compare to the best books written ever by rooster, drake, or bull (language of bull)? What? Was its leader awarded the Nobel Prize in Quasi-literate B Science-fiction Pulp? Is this a new category? Let’s assume, but, out of hand, for the sake of argument, that it really is worthy of a Nobel Prize in Quasi-literate B Science-fiction Pulp: Wouldn’t you still rather read the back of your box of Fruit Loops? (Or, for the that matter, the side panel listing ingredients?) I know I would — that is, if I really ate Fruit Loops.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Here’s the thing: Rick Deckard is an android. Whether Philip K. Dick thinks he is an android is beside the point. Deckard is an android, and the additional androids do not deserve to be “retired” just like no human being deserves to be “retired”. Androids DO dream of electric sheep, and this was an okay book, although I wanted to learn more about Mercerism, because the conclusion that Deckard comes to is one of the most dissatisfying conclusions to anything I’ve ever read. They are all androids, with the exception of Iran, Isidore, and a few additional minor characters. Deckard is a ruthless android who kills additional androids and dreams of owning a live animal. I didn’t really like the book, but this stuff is fun to reflect about. Again, it is beside the point if Philip K. Dick thinks Deckard is an android, because what one person thinks about another person doesn’t change their identity.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is one of the very rare cases where first there is a book that becomes a movie; and then this movie is so much better than the book. Normaly it’s the back (but this rule generally does not apply to books written to appear as additional merchandise with the new blockbuster).
The movie (that thankfully did stray very far from this book) is “Blade Runner” – one of my all-time favorites. Maybe even the best scifi-movie ever. But the book …. . OK, I don’t really like Dick. But still, this book is a low even for him. So take my advise: dump it, but get the movie ASAP!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve a moderate tolerance for flat-footed prose, but I didn’t get far with this before I had to give it up. Possibly it has compensating virtues: I don’t care.
Rumor has it that the consensus about Theodore Dreiser, by the bye, is something like this:
“Dreiser is not a particularly excellent writer. His sentences can be clunky, truncated and bitty. His language is stilted and awkward at times. He has no ear for writing dialogue. But these technical limitations are more than offset by Dreiser’s incredible insight into the interior lives of his characters.”
Still I’d be very surprised (I’ve not read him) to find his novels nearly as terribly written as “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (It seems to me, for that matter, that prose approaches poetry when it is especially felicitous, not when it is especially awkward and inept.)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5