|a Exported from Connexion by FLC Reed and loaded with m2btab.b in 2018. |i Adapted into: |a Blade runner (Motion picture) |0 |i Reprint of (manifestation): |a Dick, Philip K.
|a City and town life |0 |y 21st century |0 |v Fiction. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids and retire them. Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep.
|a By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. |a "Originally published in paperback by Doubleday and Company, Inc., in 1968"-Title page verso. |a New York : |b Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, |c 2017. |a Do androids dream of electric sheep? / |c Philip K. |a CCM |b eng |e rda |c CCM |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d WSL |d MBT |d OCL |d CDN |d NDS |d OMB a really cool story and I think only PKD could have written something of this style. The Earth has become barely habitable due to nuclear winter, radiation and depopulation. But who is more empathetic – humans or androids? What is the dividing line? The book constantly explores how far human ideas of life, death, religion and love could survive in a dark uncaring world’ Goodreads reviewer, ? about a post-apocalyptic world seeking resurrection through the rediscovery of empathy. I cannot praise this book enough, it really is one of the all-time greats‘ Goodreads reviewer, ? set in a dystopian Earth much dilapidated after ‘World War Terminus’. a classic example of the finest science fiction‘ Goodreads reviewer, ? Every paragraph launches us forward, demands our attention. ‘Now I understand what all the fuss is about. Readers have been blown away by Philip K. But in Deckard’s world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit – and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted … Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward.
He dreamed of owning a live animal – the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.
When he wasn’t ‘retiring’ them with his laser weapon, Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. The science fiction masterpiece behind the cult classic films Bladerunner and Bladerunner 2049.
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