Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
First Paperback Edition of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
DICK, Philip K.
Item Number: 68009
New York: Signet, 1969.
First paperback edition of this cornerstone in science fiction. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition.
Set in a post-apocalyptic near future, the novel follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with retiring six escaped androids. At its core, the novel explores the essential issues of the meaning and destiny of humanity. "It is one of Dick’s most tantalizing explorations of the human capacity for empathy” (New York Times). “A key novel in Dick’s canon” (Anatomy of Wonder II-326). Nominated for the 1968 Nebula Award and basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and the 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 starring Ford and Ryan Gosling.
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