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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The question in the title is a real question. Dick spends the whole novel making you less certain about where the answer lies.
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The Empathy Test
Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel is set in a post-nuclear San Francisco where most animals are extinct and owning a live one is a status symbol. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter paid to retire rogue androids, who are virtually indistinguishable from humans except in their lack of empathy. As he hunts six escaped Nexus-6 androids, the tests he uses to identify them begin to feel less reliable, and the question of what makes a being human becomes genuinely unstable. Ridley Scott adapted the novel as Blade Runner in 1982. The film transformed it from a cult novel into a cultural touchstone.


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Reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2 Strange
3 Professional
4 Unsettling
4 Paranoid
4 Tender
5 Hollow

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You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life.


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Dick wrote the novel in 1966 and it was published in 1968. He was a prolific writer under constant financial pressure, producing dozens of novels and short stories while living in poverty for most of his life.
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The 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott changed almost everything except the central question. Dick died just weeks before the film was released, having seen only a partial rough cut. He reportedly loved it.


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