Reddit reviews Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

This movie was based off of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

Awesome Blade Runner piece. If anyone is interested in some reading material, the movie this image is based on is based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Phenomenal read.

For that particular class, I believe the assigned reading was:
>* Wastelands - John Joseph Adams

• The Crystal World - J. G. Ballard
  
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  
• World Made By Hand - James Howard Kunstler
  
• It's Only Temporary - Eric Shapiro
  
  I also took a class on dystopian literature, which included:
  >* The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  
• The Children Of Men - P. D. James
  
• This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
  
• Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales - John Walters
  
• What Came After - Sam Winston
  
  Others I could recommend:
  >* Lost Horizon - James Hilton
  
• A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
  
• Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
  
• The Iron Heel - Jack London
  
• The Running Man - Stephen King
  
• Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
  
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
  
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
  
• 1984 - George Orwell
  
• Pretty much anything written by Kurt Vonnegut

My mistake.

Get the Del Ray edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475/ref=sip_rech_dp_10

The fun answer to this question is to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Most of these are very early cyberpunk, the progenitors of the genre if you will. As such I'm not sure if they can be described as necessarily obscure but I don't see many of them mentioned that often (admittedly I'm somewhat new to /r/cyberpunk so you guys might talk about them all the time, in which case please disregard). As a final note not all of these are available on the Kindle market. Nevertheless here's a few that leap to mind -

1. When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger which has two sequels if you enjoy it, the third being better than the second imo.
   
   
2. The Ware Tetrology by Rudy Rucker
   
   
3. Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling. He also edited the early cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades which is worth checking out along with a several of his other works.
   
   
4. Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan who also wrote a few others worth looking at.
   
   
5. Frontera by Lewis Shiner.
   
   
6. I hesitate to mention this one as it's hardly obscure but if all you have seen is the film which is based off it, it is definitely worth getting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick.
   
   
7. Vurt by Jeff Noon.
   
   
8. Farewell Horizontal by K W Jeter along with his other novels Glass Hammer and Dr. Adder.
   
   
9. Someone else mentioned Walter Jon Williams novels which I would also highly recommend.
   
   
   
   
   
   

Some of my favorites:

• Noir - K.W. Jeter
  
• Macroscope - Piers Anthony
  
• Armor - John Steakley
  
• Protector - Larry Niven
  
• I Robot - Isaac Asimov
  
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  
• The Fall of Reach (Halo) - Eric Nylund
  
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  
• Cachalot - Alan Dean Foster
  
• Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling
  
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  
• Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
  
  I tried to get as many different authors as possible in there. Many of those authors have plenty of really good books you shouldn't miss.

the last ones I've read which I've enjoyed are

• do androids dream of electric sheep
  
• When you are engulfed in Flames
  
• Brave New World
  
• The golden Ass

Here's a small list of easily accessible sci-fi that had me hooked to the genre. They are, in my humble opinion, some of the greatest books/authors of the genre.

Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein)

A Deepness in the Sky

Rainbows End (both by Vernor Vinge)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)

They also all appear to be available for your Kindle.

Make sure it's the original, not the rewrite. This and this copy are rewrites. I had to pirate a copy for my kindle to get the proper verson.

You must have been hitting the books hard. I only ended up with a few cents back.

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick.

This is the book that the movie 'Blade Runner' was based on. As with all movies this book is significantly better. The book dives more into the human and android relationship well worth a read.

I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and absolutely loved it. It was the inspiration for the the Blade Runner movies, which for some reason (maybe dystopian reason) lead me back to Fallout 4. I also just started Paris in the Twentieth Century. It has a very interesting back story to how it got published and may be right up your alley!!!

Have you ever heard of the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick? It has a pretty interesting theory on this question.

In a post-apocalyptic world, there are androids who are passed off as humans. One of the only ways to tell if they are not, is to give them an empathy test that asks them questions dealing with animals.

http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475

Androids feel no empathy towards animals, and will always fail the test.
What does that say about Humanity I wonder.

love this contest! i have a list just for books! but these two are ones that i would particularly love but probably never buy myself.

these are my cheaper ones:

do androids dream of electric sheep?

brainiac

the october country

invisible monsters


thanks for contesting!

http://www.amazon.com/Do-Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep/dp/0345404475

Obligatory wiki links: Dystopian Literature. Although, some of the titles listed don't seem to fit (The Dispossessed?). Nuclear holocaust fiction, and your general apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.

Some of the better/more popular ones:

• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm.
  
  
• Eternity Road Jack McDevitt. Well written, but not very insightful.
  
  
• The Postman David Brin.
  
  
• Mockingbird Walter Tevis. Great read. Think Idiocracy, with a serious take. Humanity's totally run by robots, everyone's forgotten how to read and think for themselves, and the world population's dropped to almost nothing.
  
  
• We Yevgeny Zamyatin. The inspiration for George Orwell's 1984. Not the best read IMO, but some people claim it's better than 1984. It's possible I read a poor translation.
  
  
• Island Aldous Huxley. It's a utopian island surrounded by a dystopian world. Might not fit in this list, but it's a good read if you like Huxley. I think it was his last novel.
  
  
• 1984 George Orwell. One of my favorite novels. I have a bumper sticker with the quote "War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery", which is a slogan from the book. (Also, a sticker on my mirror with "Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me"). The link points to Animal Farm and 1984.
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury. Another must read. Very well written, thought-provoking novel. Is it still required reading in schools?
  
  
• Earth Abides George Stewart.
  
  
• Alas, Babylon Pat Frank. Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle. I'm grouping these two together because they're very similar, both in setting and politics. I didn't really enjoy either. The politics were not at all subtle, and the characters fit too neatly into stereotypes, and too obviously the writer's hero fantasy. Still, they're pretty popular, so try them out and feel free to disagree with me.
  
  
• Brave New World Aldous Huxley. Really just a utopia that's rough around the edges, if I'm remembering it correctly (also called an anti-utopia, thank you wikipedia). Another must read.
  
  
• A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller.
  
  
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Stanislaw Lem. Another favorite. I once created a text adventure based on this book. It was about as frustrating as that Hitchhiker's Guide game.
  
  
• The Road Cormac McCarthy.
  
  
• Philip K. Dick It's hard to keep track of PKD's novels, but some of them are dystopian, all of them worth reading. Favorites: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (also known as/inspired Blade Runner), Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, The Man in the High Castle.
  
  
• The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood.
  
  
• Y: The Last Man A graphical novel/comic collection. Decent art, great story.
  
  Zombies: World War Z, Raise the Dead, Marvel Zombies, Zombie Survival Guide, Day By Day Armageddon, I Am Legend.
  
  Also, just for kicks, some of my favorite dystopian movies:
  Brazil, Soylent Green, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, Akira, Children of Men, Dark City, A Boy and His Dog, Logan's Run, Idiocracy, Equillibrium.

Sorry, I'm not sure how to find old stuff like that. Maybe there's an archive somewhere or something.

I'd be willing to have a discussion with you about it, completely drama free.
I'm a big fan of the movie but I can understand why people wouldn't like it, in fact I didn't like it when i first watched it, but there were things that captivated me and made me want to rewatch it. The more I rewatched it the more I grew to like it, and now It's a measure I use to compare to many other Sci-Fi flicks. I've since read the book that talks about the making of the film in depth, the original Phillip K Dick novel, and I've read many theories and critiques of the film. The more I learn about it the more interesting it becomes to me. So if you want to talk about it I'm game.

• Randall Munroe's (the xkcd guy) What If
  
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (also sold as Bladerunner)
  
• English versions of Japanese manga
  

Well... at least this answers an age old question