This is actually a book by famous scifi writer Philip K. Dick named "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" back in the sixties. The name was changed for the movie starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Excellent book, way ahead of its time.

Excellent sci-fi book. A very engaging read. It's much different from Ridley Scott's film version (watch the director's cut of Blade Runner). The end is a bit of a let down, though.

Do androids dream of electric sheep? You bet they do!!

I didn't like this book nearly as much as its reputation suggested I would. It's dated. Movie may have been better. By the way, the REAL name of this book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I love that title.

It's January 2021 and Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter for the San Francisco Police Department. He hunts down and "retires" rogue androids (andys). Thanks to technology from companies like the Rosen Association, it's getting increasingly hard to tell the androids from the humans, but there is an empathy test that Deckard can administer; androids don't feel empathy for humans or for each other. Meanwhile, due to the devastation wreaked by nuclear fallout from World War Terminus, animal life is nearly sacred and pets are status symbols. Deckard and his wife have an electric sheep just to try and keep up with the Joneses. Also, the fallout is starting to impact the genetics and fertility of humans, so the government is advocating emigration to Mars, running a Public Service Ad that warns: "Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!" Amidst all of this, a new religion has arisen called Mercerism. It's founder, Wilber Mercer, is an empath who is taking all of mankind's suffering upon his own shoulders. Adherents transmit their pain to him through Mercer Boxes and receive inner peace in return. Now Deckard has been given the assignment of retiring a gang of 8 andys and, to his own horror, he finds that he is starting to develop feelings of empathy for these humanoids while Mercer is telling him that it's wrong to kill the androids, but that he has to go ahead and do it anyway.

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The novel that inspired the movie of the same name. A private investigator of the future has a mission to hunt down and kill human-looking androids, and suffers a crisis of faith when he gets to know some of them in person.

One of the fathers of Cyberpunk, and an absolutely essential read!

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