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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

On sale

16th February 2012

Price: £9.99

Nebula Award, 1969

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781780220383

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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 …

Reviews

Terry Gilliam
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first
Fay Weldon
My literary hero
Sunday Times
One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac
Empire
A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment