![]() ![]() Eleven of his works have been turned into films, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975, and was nominated five separate times for the Nebula Award. Electric Sheep is made by a collective intelligence consisting of hundreds of thousands of computers and people, all over the world, dreaming together. The author of 44 published novels and 120 short stories, Dick won a Hugo Award in 1963, and a John W. Dick would go on to become one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of all time. "A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet." - The New York TimesĪbout the Author Born in Chicago in 1928, Philip K. "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." -John Brunner that other authors shy away from." - Rolling Stone Dick "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world." -John Brunner "A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet." - The New York Times " sees all the sparkling-and terrifying-possibilities. But when cornered, androids fight back-with lethal force. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. ![]() About the Book Originally published: New York: Doubleday and Co., 1968.īook Synopsis A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runnerīy 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. ![]()
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