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Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dick, Philip K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Androids--Fiction.
- Androids.
- Bounty hunters--Fiction.
- Bounty hunters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 244 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
- Summary:
- The inspiration for Blade Runner. 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 retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
- Notes:
- "A Del Rey book."
- Reprint. Originally published as Electric shepherd by Norstrillia Press, ©1968.
- Published: June 1996.
- Cover illustration: Bruce Jensen.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 10309
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dick, Philip K. Do androids dream of electric sheep?
- ISBN:
- 0345404475
- 9780345404473
- OCLC:
- 34818133
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