Amazon Book Description
- The film tie-in edition of the cult classic Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep? filmed as Blade Runner.
- As the eagerly-anticipated new film Blade Runner 2049 finally comes to the screen, rediscover the world of Blade Runner . . .
- World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.
- Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. 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
- Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralised power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
Amazon Customer Review
- Like other two star reviewers have said, the film is better than the book. The end in particular is so poor - reading it on the Kindle and not realizing I was on the last page I was genuinely shocked to go to the next page and ... nothing. Just stops as though the author had got bored with the story and didn't know what to do with it. The android characters are never developed enough for you to care about them, there is little sign of their inner life or the terror of being terminated. Their leader is hinted at having great depth but that idea isn't really explored. The human/android relationship is barely touched upon. And all the way through there is this ridiculous Mercer side show that is going on that could almost be part of a different book.
- I was hoping for a twist such as discovering (spoiler alert) that the androids were really the humans and vice-versa which may have better explained the whole telepathic Mercer thing.
Book Comment
Gollancz, 14 Sept. 2017, Paperback
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