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Phillip K Dick
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 1857988132 | ||
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Jo
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Synopsis
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 aworld 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 . . .
Review
Most people will have heard of a Science Fiction film called Bladerunner, I wonder just how many know that it was based on a book called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I have seen the film and read the book, in that order too, and I have to say that I enjoyed both of them for different reasons.
The film I enjoyed because for once we had a vision of the future that was entirely plausible, not a whimsical fantasy action adventure like the Star Wars trilogy. Instead we have a hard-boiled detective thriller that is set in the future but has elements of the 40s with it's femme fatale.
The book was great read because it was gentler than the film, instead we have a man surviving in a future that is too toxic to thrive in- real live animals are now virtually extinct and to own one is to show your status. If you don't have the money to do that then you buy an robotic replica that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing. And this is where the story gets interesting as we have a man who has been hired to ‘retire' 6 renegade human replicas who killed their masters and returned to Earth. If it looks like you, sounds like you and wants to survive like you, then surely killing them is wrong... Isn't it?
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