Mass Market Paperback, 216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 12, 1984 by Del Rey.
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!
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.
[a:Philip K. Dick|4764|Philip K. Dick|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1264613853p2/4764.jpg] is one of those writers who employs science fiction story telling to explore themes of philosophical depth. That advanced artificial intelligence could lead us into serious ethical problems is a topic that has certainly been explored before, but what I find special about [b:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?|7082|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?|Philip K. Dick|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327865673s/7082.jpg|830939] is the fact, that it left me with ambiguous feelings about androids. On the one hand it creates sympathy and compassion for androids as repressed beings, that have basically been invented to reintroduce slavery. But on the other hand their purported absence of empathy creates a certain fear of their more or less unpredictable moral behaviour and "inhumanity".
While I also enjoyed the rather dark atmosphere of the book, I found it's overall plot quite confusing.
