Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Random House
Paperback
*TYLER’S PICK!*
If you had to make me choose either Androids or Blade Runner, it would be Androids every time. Philip K. Dick delivers an insanely gripping story focused on humanity and the lack thereof. Parts of this story affected me so much that they are and will be forever ingrained into my brain. You feel anger when androids just give up and accept their fate. You feel companionship to chickenheads, and hope that the spider will be ok. It wraps you up in this tale of desperation and darkness that you just can’t find in any other story. This is one of my favorite novels of all time and I can’t see that ever changing.
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.
Random House
Paperback
*TYLER’S PICK!*
If you had to make me choose either Androids or Blade Runner, it would be Androids every time. Philip K. Dick delivers an insanely gripping story focused on humanity and the lack thereof. Parts of this story affected me so much that they are and will be forever ingrained into my brain. You feel anger when androids just give up and accept their fate. You feel companionship to chickenheads, and hope that the spider will be ok. It wraps you up in this tale of desperation and darkness that you just can’t find in any other story. This is one of my favorite novels of all time and I can’t see that ever changing.
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.
Random House
Paperback
*TYLER’S PICK!*
If you had to make me choose either Androids or Blade Runner, it would be Androids every time. Philip K. Dick delivers an insanely gripping story focused on humanity and the lack thereof. Parts of this story affected me so much that they are and will be forever ingrained into my brain. You feel anger when androids just give up and accept their fate. You feel companionship to chickenheads, and hope that the spider will be ok. It wraps you up in this tale of desperation and darkness that you just can’t find in any other story. This is one of my favorite novels of all time and I can’t see that ever changing.
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.