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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

October 11, 2007 at 4:28 pm · Filed under Book Reviews, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

106. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction) 244 p.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Sci-fi Classics Challenge

Course reading: Science Fiction

Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter whose job is to find and “retire” androids who have escaped to a dying Earth from the colonies on Mars. By now, corporations have learned to create ever-more realistic androids: they look and think just like humans. One of the few detectable differences is in the human capacity for empathy, which androids do not share. A mission to hunt down and retire six of the most sophisticated androids ever created has Deckard wondering just how close to human androids have become…and whether he’s in the right profession.

This isn’t the first work of Dick’s that I’ve read, so I wasn’t surprised by the amount of confusion I had about the plot. I rather expected new information and unexpected twists to come out of nowhere, as indeed they did, although knowing they were coming didn’t help me to anticipate what they would be. All in all, I enjoyed this book a lot, although (not for the first time) I found the treatment of women in the novel extremely depressing.

Books read: 106
Pages read: 31,334

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4 Comments »

CJHill wrote, on October 11th, 2007 at 10:01 pm:

He certainly is confusing. I had a hard time writing a review of the book but I enjoyed it a great deal.

cjh

Poodlerat wrote, on October 20th, 2007 at 5:21 pm:

Yeah, I’m definitely going to read some of his other stuff at some point. The Man in the High Castle is sitting in my TBR pile right now, as a matter of fact.

Danika (OpenChannel) wrote, on October 26th, 2007 at 12:05 am:

I’ve never read this one, but I really liked Blade Runner. Have you seen it? Just wondering where it lands on the adaptation scale.

BTW - I have 13 first lines to 13 books on my blog. Think you’d be able to tell what books they came from? :-)

Poodlerat wrote, on October 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pm:

I have vague memories of the selected excerpts we watched in my OAC English class, but we skipped so many parts that I had trouble following what was going on, so I don’t really have an opinion of it. We are going to watch it in class, though (next week, I think), so maybe I’ll write about it then.

Oh, I love those kinds of quizzes!

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