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Title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & The Man in the High Castle Author(s): Philip K Dick Pages: 1 Publisher: Publication date: Language: English Format: TXT, DOC ISBN-10: 1857988132 ISBN-13: Description: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novel about the existential crisis of police bounty hunter Rick Deckard, who hunts androids in post-nuclear war San Francisco. Along with The Man in the High Castle, this novel, written in 1966, is his most famous work, a definitive exploration of the ethical dimensions of the android concept, as a literary device for understanding persecution based upon narrow distinctions, such as ethnicity.
Screenwriters Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples loosely adapted the novel to the film Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer. For that reason some post-1982 editions of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? have been published as Blade Runner. Moreover, the computer game Blade Runner occurs in the same cinema universe, yet incorporates many novelistic elements.
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The Man in the High Castle is a 1962 alternate history novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in the former United States, in 1962, fifteen years after the Axis Powers defeated the Allies in World War II and the U.S. surrendered to Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. [1]
While not the first piece of alternate history fiction, the novel helped to define this type of story as a serious literary genre. It won the prestigious Hugo Award and helped make Dick well-known in science fiction circles. It is one of Dick's most tightly-structured and character-focused novels — he spent most of his life writing to pay bills, and so wrote quickly. This was the only novel for which he had the luxury of writing several drafts.
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