Summary
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
One of the most famous works of science fiction of all time deals with a key existential question: what is humanity and does it need something more than flesh and bones. Philip K. Dick published this novel in 1968. He wrote it with incredible speed and confirmed his status as one of the greatest authors of science fiction.
The novel is set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco. After a major nuclear disaster, a significant part of animal and plant species disappeared due to radiation. They were replaced by androids, sophisticated artificial life forms. The job of the novel's protagonist, Rick Deckard, is to hunt down and kill renegade humanoid androids. But in that hunt there must inevitably be (self) questioning of humanity...
This novel also had its own film adaptation - in 1982, Ridley Scott directed the film Blade Runner based on the motifs of this book, which joined the pantheon of cult works of SF art.
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