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Science Fiction.
HTML:A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
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 cant afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. Theyve 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 backwith lethal force.
VictoriaPL: A book that continues the tale told in the film Blade Runner and in the novel it was based on (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). Elements of both are found here.
as somebody who is slowly dipping her toes in sci-fi books, this was fine. not great, but i did enjoy it. this started off very confusing for me and therefore i had a hard time focusing because i hate feeling dumb. then i got VERY interested in the story and had trouble putting the book down and was extremely enthused about the idea of what i thought was a plot twist - got disappointed by the realization that it was not... BUT i got very into the plot of the story and it was enjoyable. other thoughts.. i like Philip K. Dick's voice very much - the way he writes is fantastic. i just wish the first few chapters of the book were just a little longer so i didn't feel like i was missing something and feel like i was playing catch up ( )
Lovely dismal atmosphere, charmingly imperfect characters, but just not enough. It didn’t raise enough doubt for me. It didn’t stir my spirit enough. I guess it’s just because I don’t find it important to ask “What makes us human?” Why should we care about who/what is human/not? What makes humans so elite? It’s because we think we rule the world, when really we only have the ILLUSION of control. (/rant) But I guess the book leading me to this observation is just as important. ( )
I am disappointed. I had higher expectations of this book, and it had some good aspects, but from an older SF book, I had hoped for less vagueness. It seemed almost philosophical to me, which would not have been a bad thing, if it was going somewhere, but this whole Mercerism business was dissatisfying to me. I felt that the actual philosophical question of what makes us human was underdeveloped, and that the other philosophical parts were unclear. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
And still I dream he treads the lawn, walking ghostly in the dew, pierced by my glad singing through. ~ Yeats
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Tim and Serena Powers, my dearest friends
To Maren Augusta Bergrud August 10, 1923 - June 14, 1967
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
And, feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In 1968, Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, a brilliant sf novel that became the source of the motion picture Blade Runner. Though the novel's characters and backgrounds differ in some respects from those of the film, readers who enjoy the latter will discover an added dimension on encountering the original work. Del Rey Books returned this classic novel to print with a movie tie-in edition titled Blade Runner: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?).
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
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 cant afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. Theyve 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 backwith lethal force.
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