Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
$22.40
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2010
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575094185 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0575094184 |
| Author: | Philip K. Dick |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | S.f. Masterworks |
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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
A marvellous book. - Brian Aldiss.
About The Author
Philip K. Dick
Philip K Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, BEYOND LIES THE WUB in 1952. Among his many fine novels are THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? and FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID.
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