Blade Runner

Author(s): Philip K. Dick

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Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.


 


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 build 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.


 


Praise for Philip K. Dick


 


" Dick] sees all the sparkling--and terrifying--possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from."--Rolling Stone


 


"A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."--The New York Times

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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? and FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID.For more information visit www.philipkdick.com

General Fields

  • : 9781473222687
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Gollancz
  • : 0.2
  • : August 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : November 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 208
  • : Paperback
  • : Philip K. Dick