Cat Earth Society Podcast reviewed Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick
CES - BC - 68
4 stars
Sehr spannendes Buch, tolles Setting und fesselnde, mitreißende Beschreibungen der Charaktere. Leider etwas schwaches Ende.
¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? Pocket Edhasa, #95
Paperback, 196 pages
Español language
Published April 30, 1997 by Edhasa.
Una de las mejores novelas de Philip K. Dick, y sin duda la más leída, esta obra es una alucinante pesadilla tecnológica, cuyo tema principal es el impreciso límite entre lo natural y lo artificial. En un mundo devastado por la guerra, lleno de restos tecnológicos y bloques de apartamento vacíos, Rick Deckard es un cazador mercenario cuya tarea consiste en retirar de la circulación a los androides rebeldes. Pero los Nexus 6 son androides con características especiales, casi humanos.
En esta novela se basó Ridley Scott para su película Blade Runner, un hito en el género de la ciencia ficción, que recrea con lógica implacable algunas de las características del mundo contemporáneo y plantea una serie de temas de plena actualidad.
Sehr spannendes Buch, tolles Setting und fesselnde, mitreißende Beschreibungen der Charaktere. Leider etwas schwaches Ende.
Switched to audiobook - 2nd read through didn't stick much better than the first, after all
DNF. Trying to read this is like trying to process the damage done to the language parts of the brain in realtime.
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While I also enjoyed the rather dark atmosphere of the book, I found it's overall plot quite confusing.