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Reddit mentions of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Specs:
Color | Silver |
Height | 8.26 Inches |
Length | 5.51 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | May 1996 |
Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
Width | 0.51 Inches |
This movie was based off of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."
Awesome Blade Runner piece. If anyone is interested in some reading material, the movie this image is based on is based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Phenomenal read.
For that particular class, I believe the assigned reading was:
>* Wastelands - John Joseph Adams
I also took a class on dystopian literature, which included:
>* The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Others I could recommend:
>* Lost Horizon - James Hilton
My mistake.
Get the Del Ray edition.
http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475/ref=sip_rech_dp_10
The fun answer to this question is to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Most of these are very early cyberpunk, the progenitors of the genre if you will. As such I'm not sure if they can be described as necessarily obscure but I don't see many of them mentioned that often (admittedly I'm somewhat new to /r/cyberpunk so you guys might talk about them all the time, in which case please disregard). As a final note not all of these are available on the Kindle market. Nevertheless here's a few that leap to mind -
Some of my favorites:
I tried to get as many different authors as possible in there. Many of those authors have plenty of really good books you shouldn't miss.
the last ones I've read which I've enjoyed are
Here's a small list of easily accessible sci-fi that had me hooked to the genre. They are, in my humble opinion, some of the greatest books/authors of the genre.
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)
A Deepness in the Sky
Rainbows End (both by Vernor Vinge)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
They also all appear to be available for your Kindle.
Make sure it's the original, not the rewrite. This and this copy are rewrites. I had to pirate a copy for my kindle to get the proper verson.
You must have been hitting the books hard. I only ended up with a few cents back.
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick.
This is the book that the movie 'Blade Runner' was based on. As with all movies this book is significantly better. The book dives more into the human and android relationship well worth a read.
I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and absolutely loved it. It was the inspiration for the the Blade Runner movies, which for some reason (maybe dystopian reason) lead me back to Fallout 4. I also just started Paris in the Twentieth Century. It has a very interesting back story to how it got published and may be right up your alley!!!
Have you ever heard of the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick? It has a pretty interesting theory on this question.
In a post-apocalyptic world, there are androids who are passed off as humans. One of the only ways to tell if they are not, is to give them an empathy test that asks them questions dealing with animals.
http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475
Androids feel no empathy towards animals, and will always fail the test.
What does that say about Humanity I wonder.
love this contest! i have a list just for books! but these two are ones that i would particularly love but probably never buy myself.
these are my cheaper ones:
do androids dream of electric sheep?
brainiac
the october country
invisible monsters
thanks for contesting!
http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475
Obligatory wiki links: Dystopian Literature. Although, some of the titles listed don't seem to fit (The Dispossessed?). Nuclear holocaust fiction, and your general apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Some of the better/more popular ones:
Zombies: World War Z, Raise the Dead, Marvel Zombies, Zombie Survival Guide, Day By Day Armageddon, I Am Legend.
Also, just for kicks, some of my favorite dystopian movies:
Brazil, Soylent Green, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, Akira, Children of Men, Dark City, A Boy and His Dog, Logan's Run, Idiocracy, Equillibrium.
Sorry, I'm not sure how to find old stuff like that. Maybe there's an archive somewhere or something.
I'd be willing to have a discussion with you about it, completely drama free.
I'm a big fan of the movie but I can understand why people wouldn't like it, in fact I didn't like it when i first watched it, but there were things that captivated me and made me want to rewatch it. The more I rewatched it the more I grew to like it, and now It's a measure I use to compare to many other Sci-Fi flicks. I've since read the book that talks about the making of the film in depth, the original Phillip K Dick novel, and I've read many theories and critiques of the film. The more I learn about it the more interesting it becomes to me. So if you want to talk about it I'm game.
Well... at least this answers an age old question