Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Author: Philip K. Dick Category: Science Fiction Published: January 1, 1968 Language: English File Size: 1.3 MB Tags: American | Classics | Cyberpunk | Dystopia | Fantasy | Fiction | novel | Science fiction | Speculative Fiction |Theme:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, explores the theme of The Power of Human Empathy.
Summary:
The story is “androids don’t feel empathy and that makes them different from humans.” An android would sell out an other android without a second thought according to the some of the characters.
In the aftermath of a destructive world war, the novel tells the story of Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who makes a living by tracking down and killing human-like androids.
Famous Quotes:
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.”
″“Maybe this was the last spider. The last living spider on Earth. In that case it’s all over for spiders, too.”
“Only androids show up with false memory systems; it’s been found ineffective in humans.”
“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida.”
“The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.”
″ It, he thought. She keeps calling the owl it.”
″‘Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!‘”
“Mercerism is a swindle!”
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
“In a giant, empty, decaying building which had once housed thousands, a single TV set hawked its wares to an uninhabited room.”
“Once, he thought, I would have seen the stars. Years ago. But now it’s only the dust; no one has seen a star in years, at least not on Earth.”
“An android doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for.”
Literary awards:
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- Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1968)
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