Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [electronic resource] : Blade Runner Series, Book 1
Dick, Philip K.2007
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The classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired two major motion pictures: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick "[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from."—Rolling Stone "A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."—The New York Times
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Author:
Dick, Philip K., AuthorBrick, Scott, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2007
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Blade Runner
Biography/History:
Born in Chicago in 1928, Philip K. Dick would go on to become one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of all time. The author of 44 published novels and 120 short stories, Dick won a Hugo Award in 1963 and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975, and was nominated five separate times for the Nebula Award. Eleven of his works have been turned into films, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. He died in 1982.
ISBN:
9781415936795
Language:
English
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BRN:
2337784