Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (2008, Random House Publishing Group)

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English language

Published July 29, 2008 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
9780345508553

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4 stars (1 review)

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

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4 stars

I wouldn't say this is my favorite story by Philip K. Dick (Minority Report, probably), but it was definitely entertaining. The picture he painted of a dying earth was well done. I could see well the struggle these people lived through.

To be honest, though, I'm still not sure of the message he was trying to get across. It started to look like a story on equal rights, comparing androids to subjugated classes of people within our society, but then he portrayed the androids themselves as inhuman and inferior. I don't think I got much out of the story besides the entertainment value.