Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
106. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Science Fiction) 244 p.
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
Tags: 50 Book Challenge 2007, Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Classics Challenge
