Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1928–1982 · United States
Why it matters
A bounty hunter tasked with 'retiring' escaped androids increasingly can't tell them from the humans he's sworn to protect. The novel that became Blade Runner, and speculative fiction's essential meditation on empathy and personhood.
At a glance
speculative fictiondystopian
Difficulty 5/10fast pace210 pagesTerse, propulsive prose but conceptually dense philosophical questions.
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