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Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (2007) 4 stars

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the …

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.