Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

author: Philip K. Dick
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2014/11/22
date added: 2019/01/12
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review:
'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' is the classic novel by Philip K. Dick that was the (sort of) basis for the movie Blade Runner. I'd read this book decades ago and recently revisited it when an online book club I'm in on Goodreads decided to read it.

The plot elements include a strange religion called Mercerism, an obsession with a tv host named Buster Friendly, a need to own real animals which are superior and more expensive than robotic ones, a machine that measures minute responses to moral situations and a machine that allows you to dial in your level of empathy. There is a spider, a toad, a goat and an electric sheep. There is a bounty hunter out to dispatch a group of robots so that he can finally afford a real animal. Along the way, the theme is all about what it means to be truly human.

If you're familiar with the movie and not the book, the first thing you have to do is realize they are both separate, but both good works. If you've never read the book, it's a classic. It holds up pretty well, and I'm glad I took it for a reread.


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