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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

by Philip K Dick (Author)

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 16 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 1780220383
ISBN 13: 9781780220383
Book Overview: Philip K. Dick's classic SF novel, which was adapted as the film BLADE RUNNER.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for SFWA Nebula Award Novel Category 1969.

Media Reviews
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 * Sunday Times *
My literary hero * Fay Weldon *
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam *
Author Bio
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, BEYOND LIES THE WUB in 1952. Among his many fine novels are THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? and FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID.