book review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[ozma914]

Rikk Deckard is a bounty hunter in a futuristic city, who flies his hover car around while on the hunt for escaped androids who need to be "retired".

Gosh, that sounds an awfully lot like the plot of the movie "Blade Runner", doesn't it?

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K. Dick, was first published in 1968, and was indeed the

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

Yes - I read it after I saw the first Blade Runner and it’s really quite a different idea although you can see how it was adapted.

[ozma914]

Even though people complain about it, it takes real genius to take a good book and turn it into a good movie--they're such very different animals.