Title:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author:
Philip K. Dick
Genre:
Science fiction, Dystopian, Fiction
Publisher:
Del Rey
Publishing
date: First published in 1968
Pages:
249
Rating
★★★★✩
Hello, it’s been
a while since my last review, today I’m reviewing Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? I had high expectations on this one, and I’m not disappointed.
The book is settled in
a dystopian Earth after a nuclear war. Earth is not safe to live in due to
radioactive dust that deteriorates people’s health until they become intellectually slow humans classified as
a "special." The Earth's
dust-irradiated atmosphere leads the United Nations to encourage mass
emigrations to off-world colonies to preserve humanity's genetic integrity,
with the incentive of free personal androids:
robot servants identical to humans. As time passes by, those androids become
more and more realistic until it’s hard to differentiate them from people. Rick
Deckard, the protagonist, is a bounty hunter, he signs for a new police mission
that is to remove 6 nexus-6 androids that had gone rogue. These androids are
almost human, the only thing Deckard has to identify them is an empathy test,
androids don’t feel empathy. During his mission he will start doubting himself,
wondering if he is doing the right thing “retiring” androids, beings that want
to live their own lives, that have intelligence of their own; and reflexing
about what makes us human.
 |
| Blade Runner is a movie adaptation of this book. |
