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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Paperback, 244 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $14 | purchase

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Dick's trippy novel tells of sophisticated off-world androids who turn against their creators, slip back to a post-apocalyptic Earth, and must be hunted down by bounty hunter Rick Deckard. The book inspired — albeit very loosely — the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner.

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