Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

224 pages

English language

Published Sept. 13, 1999 by Orion Pub Co.

ISBN:
978-1-85798-813-0
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4 stars (376 reviews)

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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J'aime aimé sans aimer

4 stars

J'ai détesté l'ambiance de ce livre et pourtant je n'arrivais pas à décrocher. Cette lecture était clairement une sortie de zone de confort pour moi mais c'est finalement loin d'être désagréable. Au début je n'y croyais pas, je ne comprenais rien du tout mais je pense que c'était voulu car les éléments se sont peu à peu clarifiés. Je referme le livre en ayant presque tout compris. J'ai aimé la problématique : cette histoire d'androïde, d'animaux électriques et le fait que toute l'histoire se déroule sur une seule journée. Le livre aborde des thématiques intéressantes et peint un portrait futuriste de l'humanité, qui, malgré les années, peut encore nous faire réfléchir aujourd'hui. J'ai cependant été horrifié par l'épisode de l'araignée, par la vision de ces immeubles sombres et abandonnés, et cette pauvre chèvre ! Tout est très froid, très impersonnel, très sombre. C'est à la fois fascinant et terrifiant...

Une bonne réflexion sur la nature humaine ^^

4 stars

Critique après avoir lu cet ouvrage je peux le dire avec simplicité j’ai été surpris et prie dans une boucle qui me poussait à m’interroger sur la vérité sur le bien et le mal.

ma critique contiendra surement des spoilers que je signalais mais pour plus de confort de lecture je vous conseil de lire ma critique si vous avait déjà lu le livre Nous sommes donc dans un monde ravager par la dernière grande guerre qui et contaminer par de la radioactivité rien de bien surprenant au premier abord juste un aperçut de se qui nous attend

La présentation des humains et diviser en 2 catégories. Ceux qui ont développé un système immunitaire qui les protège des radiations et ceux qui ne l’on pas développer dit « spéciaux » qui sont dénigres priver de certain droit et rejeter par la société.

Du a la contamination de la planète une …

une bonne réflexion sur la nature humaine

4 stars

Content warning Mention spéciale pour le premier test il ma retournée le cerveau personnellement le retournement de situation

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Storygraph'

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Pulled from my Letterboxd review of Blade Runner: The Final Cut—

I just finished reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and had to revisit the movie adaptation. They are nothing alike. I do not say this to diminish Blade Runner. It is a cyberpunk masterpiece regardless. 

My first experience was the Director’s Cut; tonight’s the Final Cut. The visuals are breathtaking. It’s even more apparent how 2049 deftly expanded on the aesthetics and themes established here. But Blade Runner took the barest whiff of inspiration from the novel and ran in a completely different direction. 

Do Androids Dream has none of the rain, or neon, or crime ridden streets. Instead it is set on a depopulated, irradiated, dying earth. A lonely earth. Murder is unheard of because, legally and religiously, all life is considered sacred. Down to the smallest ant. A strange spiritual movement called Mercerism even networks human …

Busy hunting androids and pets

4 stars

Classic dystopian on a ruined Earth, where the last human strugglers are more concerned for their (not electric) pets and the androids are running amok. The story flows easy and kept my attention.

I really liked how the world was imagined and visualised in such a smooth and "natural", almost common place way even though there's some pretty weird things going on, like how people use special boxes to merge their minds, feelings and visions of a guy Mercer or how everyone really ought to own and care for at least one (totally real) animal.

It was a short book and I would have liked it to be a bit longer, some interesting bits are mostly glossed over and could had been explored a bit more, for example life on the mars colonies or what the fuck is Mercerism.

Prescient and gripping if somewhat inscrutable

3 stars

I mostly knew what I was getting myself into since I've seen Blade Runner before, but I have to say I enjoyed the book more. I picked it up in light of the latest AI hype cycle currently strangling Silicon Valley to see what Dick was thinking about this topic all those years ago. I found it to be a fun page-turner with some interesting ideas scattered throughout. In the end, though, I had a hard time making sense of some of the main character's motivations.

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

El worldbuilding, los temas que se tratan, los personajes... Todos los elementos por sí mismos son una pasada, pero lo que es el desarrollo de las escenas... No entiendo porqué los personajes hacen muchas cosas o porqué cambian de opinión constantemente, y lo del mercerismo tampoco lo acabo de pillar. Los personajes femeninos y todo el rollo el sexo, corramos un tupido velo y aceptemos pulpo por la época en la que se escribió. El final me ha dejado así :|

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

i watched bladerunner a couple years ago, so im very qualified to denounce it and in fact, all films. this book is pretty good.
i like this interpretation of androids. they are cute and awkward. i also like the worldbuilding, and the various scifi technologies. it was very cyberpunk and angsty. i like the emotion machine, the electric animals, the dust, the kipple. I really like John Isidore.
EMPATHY is such a precious element of this book. it turns it inside out, it rocks my world.
im too lazy to write a full review sorry, maybe ill revisit this.

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I guess this might have been a fascinating read in read in 1968, but I don't understand how people are still fawning over it 50+ years later.

I read very little sci-fi, but even I recognize the influence this book had. Elements from it pop up in pretty much every sci-fi movie/show I've seen.

The prose is, to be generous, not good. (Although that seems par for the course with the limited sci-fi I've read.)

The plot slogs a long, except for a captivating section in the middle of the book. The final climax and denouement are sleep-inducing.

Incredibly overrated, this might be one of the few (and best) examples of the movie being better than the book.

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I think they do, especially of they are wired to it.

Loved, loved, loved this book.
It was a bit weird, as I'm so familiar with the Bladerunner movie.
It's funny to recognise the characters and find they are different than what you remember them to be.

Also the way religion and nature has changed in a very short (couple decades) timespan is weird, it feels more like it plays out far in the future, but in the authors view it was only a couple decades after a catastrophic (nuclear) event.

Anyways, DADoES has some great world building and some very interesting characters, and just like in the movie it asks the question: what does it mean to be human?

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"Do androids dream? Rick asked himself. Evidently; that’s why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here. A better life, without servitude."

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