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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Science Fiction Novel by Philip K. Dick
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Cyberpunk,
- Dystopian,
- Post-Apocalyptic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Bleak futures where humanity clings to artificial life
- Bounty hunters tracking rogue androids through ruined San Francisco
- Stories where emotion is simulated and reality feels empty
From Little Stack
Set in a post-war, futuristic San Francisco, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a cyberpunk masterpiece—and, I’d argue, the first true cyberpunk novel.
Much of humanity has high-tailed it to Mars and other off-world colonies following a devastating nuclear war, and it’s only the genetically damaged or chronically poor who are condemned to live in the eerily empty and quiet megacities left behind.
On every page, you feel a sense of decay, with the city crumbling and deteriorating, the absence of human life haunting. Technology no longer improves human life; instead, it allows people to numb themselves, creating an alternative in which no one has to live in unpleasant reality but can instead escape to an enchanting fantasy. Emotion is programmed, never felt.
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.
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