Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

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World War Terminus has left the earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalks, in search of the renegade replicants who are his prey. When he isn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick gets his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things are never that simple, and his assignment quickly turns into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted...

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. Previous titles: The Zap Gun (Bfmt Sept 06); The Cosmic Puppets; Galactic Pot-Healer; A Maze of Death; Confessions of a Crap Artist; Mary and the Giant; In Milton Lumky Territory; The Penultimate Truth; Paycheck; The Simulacra; The World Jones Made; Time Out Of Joint; Solar Lottery; Eye In The Sky; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Valis; Now Wait For Last Year; Three Early Novels; Dr Bloodmoney; We Can Remember It For You Wholesale; Minority Report; Ubik; A Scanner Dark

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times * My literary hero * Fay Weldon * For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam * A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment * Empire *