Blade Runner

Les androïdes rêvent-ils de moutons électriques ?

pocket book, 288 pages

French language

Published June 10, 2014 by J'AI LU.

ISBN:
978-2-290-09449-5
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4 stars (391 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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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."

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

4 stars

Amazing book. As the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, many of the characters and situations are familiar, but there are plenty of differences to savor. PKD, from what I have read so far, was a master at telling incredible stories within intricately constructed universes, without needing hundreds and hundreds of pages to do it. So while this book presents one magnificent take on Rick Deckard’s quest, Ridley Scott was able to plumb the depths of Dick’s imagination for his take, just as magnificent. Even though it was written over fifty years ago, and contains glimpses of technology on a different track than we have apparently taken, it is timeless, as it explores a timeless question: what does it mean to be human?

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

5 stars

First of all, if you're already a huge PKD fan then you've probably already read everything in this collection, so decide accordingly. But even though I'd read a few of these, I picked this up on Audible and have been completely engrossed. Most importantly, you need to know that "Electric Dreams" is a TV series, each episode of which plays on a short story or theme by PKD, and this book is a collection of the 10 of PKD’s short stories that inspired episodes of the show, each introduced by the screenwriter who used that story as an inspiration. While I’d love to have read a little more about the episodes also, this is a great way to present PKD’s visionary stories and now I will have to go watch the show too. And even if you've read all the stories before, some of the screenwriters' thoughts and discussions about …

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

4 stars

Coming to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? from Blade Runner is an interesting experience, given the drastic changes in tone (the glitzy corporate overpopulation of Blade Runner vs. the post-apocalyptic depression of Do Androids Dream?). Shaking the dust of Blade Runner from your sandals is necessary before continuing.

The primary tension in Electric Sheep comes down to empathy vs. cold intellect (human vs. android), and whether an android could develop empathy, which is never properly resolved. In one moment, an android is clipping the legs off a spider just to see if it can walk with four, but in the next is distraught over losing a friend.

Real-world engineer hat: it wouldn't be that difficult to make androids "feel" empathy, any more so than it would be to make them "feel" anything else, including self-preservation. This is, of course, assuming you could get them to read the emotions (or …

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

4 stars

This book took me a while to get into it but once I'd got a grip on it the story flowed really well. The characters are very bland and it is pretty tough trying to find somebody to like.

The story didn't end how I was hoping it to but never mind, ya can't have everything.

The Blade Runner movie must be very loosely based on this book, I think I'm gonna have to watch the movie again now.

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

3 stars

Extremely interesting book, specially the first half.
The beginning of the story creates a very interesting and convincing alternate universe.

It has a climax to soon and IMHO the book could end right after this climax. The second half of the book (the last three "andys") simple did not capture my attention, and I never understood the Wilbur Mercer/Buster Friendly conflict.

Interesting read, but not a must.

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

3 stars

I ... wasn't as impressed with it as I expected to be. I'd read this book a long time ago, but I've never seen the movie. Recently it came up in conversation very often so I decided to re-read the book and refresh my memory.

To cut a long story short, if you want to read riveting sci-fi stuff about robots and artificial intelligence, stick with Asimov

Review of 'Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

(This review is for the audio CD read by Scott Brick). Good reader, but disappointing book. What a difference a few years (ahem: decades) makes. I couldn't understand the book's world—what were the motivations? The economics? How did food grow, who kept the electricity and infrastructure running? If androids weren't affected by mood organs, why not use those as a detection mechanism instead of the much slower VK? What motivated the androids to come to Earth? To mingle with humans? Just how did this world operate? I couldn't make it past those questions and more.

Blade Runner the movie is still one of my favorites. It has aged well. This book, not so well. I don't need to read it again. And probably neither do you.

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