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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick,

Roger Zelazny (Introduction)

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

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Aug 14, 2008 Stephen rated it liked it

Shelves: 1954-1969, world-in-the-shitter, award-nominee-nebula, science-fiction, cyber-punk-prep-and-post, audiobook, easton-press

3.5 stars. Good novel that may be one of Dick's best work. Don't go into this looking for the movie "Blade Runner" as you will not find it. This is a psychological journey into the meaning being human.

Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1969) ...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Banner rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi

I didn't know how to take P.K. Dick's. style when I first read him a couple of years ago, but it has started to grow on me and I'm seeing the attraction so many have for his stories.

Some of his common themes are well told in this story of an angst ridden android bounty hunter from the war ravaged future earth. The main theme being, consciousness and the uniqueness of humanity. Man in our unchecked advances of technology has attempted to take these elements of humanity and commercialize them, res ...more

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Jul 03, 2008 JuliAnna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

This is one of those books I've meant to read for years. I'm a little embarrassed that I never have. It was the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
I've just begun, but I love how mundane nature of the spousal interaction of the opening scene is juxtaposed to the outrageousness of existence in a mood-regulated world in which the weather report focuses on the levels of fallout. Lead cod-pieces, indeed. This does, however, make the feel a little more trite than some other PK Dick novels. ...more

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Aug 31, 2009 Frank Taranto rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

My favorite of the PKD books I've read so far, this was more straifgtforward than usual for one of his novels. Big question in the book, what is real life - stays unanswered, and leaves you thinking.

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Feb 07, 2010 Erin rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

Overall, I enjoyed this book. My one criticism is not that the world Philip K Dick creates is unbelievable, but that his main character comes off as a little underdeveloped... or perhaps straight out of a 1930s spy novel...a little too film noir, I guess.
I would love to get into the author's head to know why he included certain parts to the story line...At parts I felt I was missing the hidden meaning of the book. I loved that in this alternate world where empathy is the measure by which humanit ...more

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Aug 31, 2008 Richard rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, pringle-top-100-1949-84

Entropy, Androids and finally a little Empathy.

Don't expect Blade Runner, no brooding alpha male lone wolf here.
Still atmospheric, but different, still excellent as well. ...more

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