Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

281 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 2001 by G.K. Hall.

ISBN:
978-0-7838-9518-5
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OCLC Number:
46918415

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4 stars (5 reviews)

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

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The story was well worth reading because it featured a number of subplots which were not part of the movie Blade Runner: (1) Animal husbandry as a status symbol, accounting for the original title of the story, (2) The cult of Wilbur Mercer dedicated to the cultivation of universal empathy using an "empathy box" device, which suffers a setback in credibility near the end of the story, (3) The use of the "mood organ" to achieve various mental states as entertainment or to relieve stress, (4) The universally watched "Fred Friendly" television show on the government television channel and its overtones of mass indoctrination, (5) The persistence of dangerous radioactive fallout from World War Terminal which leads to the brain damage experienced by the 'specials' such as J. R. Isidore. The characters diverge in greater and lesser degrees where they overlap between the two works, and the ones which appear …

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Subjects

  • Androids -- Fiction.
  • Large type books.