false<![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255642700m/7082.jpg708252 <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i> was published in 1968. Grimly foreboding, even today it's a masterpiece ahead of its time.
By 2021, World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction & sending humankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature. For people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep...even humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids & retire them. But cornered androids tend to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling & terrifying possibilities... that other authors shy away from."--Paul Williams
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32falsefalseWed Dec 05 07:11:24 -0800 2007Wed Dec 05 07:35:39 -0800 2007 It seems that when Dick wrote this he didn't have a good grasp on translating his big ideas into an...more...]]>
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The protaganist bounty hunter uses an empathy test to determine whether a suspect is human or android. Androids are not allowed on earth (they are essentially slaves of humans who have emigrated to other planets) and are 'retired' when ...more...]]>
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He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about as if it lived.
I'm still reading this book. I've read it before but it's been at least 10 years if not more.
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41falsefalseMon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008Wed Apr 02 12:51:01 -0700 2008Wed Apr 02 13:59:16 -0700 2008 The storytelling is very compelling, he leaves alot to the readers imagination (which would make it easier for screenwr...more...]]>
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