Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Registered by emtmeghan of on 3/27/2007
2 journalers for this copy...
RELEASE NOTES:
I am putting this into my "First Timers" Bookbox. Enjoy!!
I am putting this into my "First Timers" Bookbox. Enjoy!!
Journal Entry 2 by emtmeghan from not specified, not specified not specified on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Read this almost a decade ago for a class I took my first semester in college. My husband read it last March when we were in the hospital for the birth of our daughter. Time for it to travel elsewhere. It really is a fantastic book, and you can rent Bladerunner when you are done with it.
From the Publisher
"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
—John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .
They even built humans.
Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."
—Paul Williams
Rolling Stone
From the Publisher
"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
—John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .
They even built humans.
Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."
—Paul Williams
Rolling Stone
Wow! I saw this book in several lists of the best sci-fi of all time, and have been wanting to read it. :) I'll probably also save it to release in the You're Such an Animal challenge this fall!
I really really enjoyed this book. I sat and read it all the way through in one sitting, completly becoming immersed in a completly foreign "future world" that this author creates. I pretty much just ended up taking the story at face value and not trying to pull too much out of it, because there's so much there, too much to analyze, and I stink at literary criticism.
This is either going into a movie tie-in book box, as inspiration for the movie Blade Runner, or being released this fall in the You're Such an Animal release challenge.
This is either going into a movie tie-in book box, as inspiration for the movie Blade Runner, or being released this fall in the You're Such an Animal release challenge.
