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By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep ... They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.… (més)
VictoriaPL: A book that continues the tale told in the film Blade Runner and in the novel it was based on (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). Elements of both are found here.
Un novel·la curta distòpica que ha augmentat la seva importància i influència gràcies a la pel·lícula de Blade Runner de Ridley Scott. Conté idees interessants que no apareixen a la versió cinema i que només apareixen apuntades i mereixeirien més atenció. Una obra de referència dins del gènere. ( )
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And still I dream he treads the lawn, walking ghostly in the dew, pierced by my glad singing through. ~ Yeats
Dedicatòria
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To Tim and Serena Powers, my dearest friends
To Maren Augusta Bergrud August 10, 1923 - June 14, 1967
Primeres paraules
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A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
Citacions
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My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe
Darreres paraules
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And, feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee.
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In 1968, Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, a brilliant sf novel that became the source of the motion picture Blade Runner. Though the novel's characters and backgrounds differ in some respects from those of the film, readers who enjoy the latter will discover an added dimension on encountering the original work. Del Rey Books returned this classic novel to print with a movie tie-in edition titled Blade Runner: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?).
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By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep ... They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.