Blade Runner

Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.

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

“[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

©1968 Philip K. Dick (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Amazing Book

This book is very good, I saw both movie adaptations before reading this book. The official name is “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep” but as I feel the movies gave this book a bit of popularity, you can see why they would add Blade Runner in the title despite it never being said in the book. All in all, it’s a very sophisticated book, and I mean that you need to be a complex reader and if know a large range of vocabulary to understand the book. It’s still very intriguing and interesting and worth a read considering how short it is. It is very different from the movie but you will notice the similarities as you watch the move and read the book. I do find some sections in the book a bit boring but for the most part it kept me hooked, if you are a Blade Runner movie fan i suggest you give this book a go.

Wrong, misleading book title

This is the original Philip k. Dick book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Not the motion picture

Listen because of the movie but expect a different story.

I LOVE the original movie! I bought the book because of that. However, I listened to the book Expecting it to be a different story. Do not expect it to be the same. I rated it as a different work, not as a faithful rendition of the movie in print. I enjoyed the book. I ALWAYS enjoy Scott Brick as the Narrator!

classic!!!

Better than the movie in many ways. it delves into topics not addressed in thevmovie

A Good Book

I dont rate things very often, but I fully endorse this book. Well written and thought provoking, it does what books should aim to do: it made me feel.

I can no longer watch the film

I tried to watch the film after this, and I cannot. It feels like a completely different beast.

The story has its own nuances, though I it does feel drawn out in places. i have not read the short story,

Worth the read.

Awesome!

First off, I've never been a fan of the Blade Runner movie. I know, I know. That is blasphemy. But I just didn't enjoy it. And that is saying something, because I love sci-fi, I love Harrison Ford, I love 80s movies, and I love the premise. Anyway, I really enjoyed this book. Parts of it are a little weird and the beginning is a little slow, but the overall book is amazing. It has the same overall premise as the Blade Runner movie, but it's incredibly different. The Blade Runner movie was inspired by this book, but it is not this book. the narrator was.... interesting, but I learned to love him. His strangeness seemrd to fit the book perfectly. Highly recommend.

Master piece

I read this book as a kid and it turned me on to SF. Now 15 years later it's an even deeper read.

Try to forget about Blade Runner

This is very misleading marketing, because the film Blade Runner, is very, very, very different from the novel that inspired it. The novel is full of deliberately silly social satire on manners, the media, and the bourgeois desire for status symbols, and it doesn't contain much moody noir at all. The two works do gradually become more similar as the novel progresses, but it takes a long time.

I could not get Harrison Ford's Deckard out of my head, and my mental images of him behaving like the Deckard in the novel (having a wife, watching terrible TV shows, keeping sheep on the roof of his apartment building) was just too much contradiction for my brain to cope with.

If I try this audiobook again, I'll arrange a memory wipe first, in order to experience it on its own terms.

Post apocalyptic search to define humanity

Slowly read, but 1.6x speed was just right.

The build-up of the story is minimal, but will have you questioning what characters are fighting to be human, and what humans have no fight in them.