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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Philip K Dick author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:8th Mar '07

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? cover

Published to celebrate the life and work of Philip K. Dick, the bestselling author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death

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 ...

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 *
A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment * Empire *

  • Short-listed for Nebula Award 1969 (UK)

ISBN: 9780575079939

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 22mm

Weight: 201g

224 pages