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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick,

Roger Zelazny (Introduction)

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

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Jun 15, 2007 mark monday rated it it was amazing

Shelves: alpha-team, z-philip-k-dick, new-wave

i do agree with your point regarding morality and how folks aren't necessarily born with that. i guess i just disagree when it comes to traits or attributes, such as empathy. for example, a person can learn society's morals, come to believe in them and strive towards them, and so eventually become a moral or even moralistic person. but they can have all that and still not be an empathetic person - possibly because they never learned how to be empathetic, but also possibly because they weren't bo ...more

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Jan 29, 2008 Sandi rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2008, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic-dystopian

When I first read this last year, I thought it was a good detective/action book that did have some social commentary. On second reading, I realized that "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was so much more than that. Once you know what's going to happen, you realize that every sentence is important. Every musing and interaction foreshadows what's going to happen later in the book. Every question raises ten more. It seems like a simple book and it is easy to read. But, on close examination, it ...more

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Jul 03, 2008 JuliAnna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

This is one of those books I've meant to read for years. I'm a little embarrassed that I never have. It was the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
I've just begun, but I love how mundane nature of the spousal interaction of the opening scene is juxtaposed to the outrageousness of existence in a mood-regulated world in which the weather report focuses on the levels of fallout. Lead cod-pieces, indeed. This does, however, make the feel a little more trite than some other PK Dick novels. ...more

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Aug 31, 2008 Richard rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pringle-top-100-1949-84, science-fiction

Entropy, Androids and finally a little Empathy.

Don't expect Blade Runner, no brooding alpha male lone wolf here.
Still atmospheric, but different, still excellent as well. ...more

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