Our September title is Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The movie Blade Runner was adapted from this novel.
It was a surprise to me that this story is set in San Francisco and that Philip K. Dick is considered to be a local writer. He went to high school and college in Berkeley in the 1940's.
This novel takes place after the humans have done a good destroying their world so most people have moved to Mars. Dick was in high school when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan so I can understand where the the image of a world filled with empty apartment buildings and kipple might come from. Post apocalyptic stories are a favorite theme for science fiction writers. They get to create their new world from the rubble or fly off to another planet.
After reading this book I have a new, wonderful appreciation for spiders. The scene where the android, Pris, cuts off the legs of a spider one, by one is right up there with any other torture scene. Because the earth is such a mess real animals have died off. Caring for the few animals left has become a religion. It's miracle Isidore has found a living spider in his decaying apartment building only to have it cruelly disasembled by an android.
More to come...
It was a surprise to me that this story is set in San Francisco and that Philip K. Dick is considered to be a local writer. He went to high school and college in Berkeley in the 1940's.
This novel takes place after the humans have done a good destroying their world so most people have moved to Mars. Dick was in high school when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan so I can understand where the the image of a world filled with empty apartment buildings and kipple might come from. Post apocalyptic stories are a favorite theme for science fiction writers. They get to create their new world from the rubble or fly off to another planet.
After reading this book I have a new, wonderful appreciation for spiders. The scene where the android, Pris, cuts off the legs of a spider one, by one is right up there with any other torture scene. Because the earth is such a mess real animals have died off. Caring for the few animals left has become a religion. It's miracle Isidore has found a living spider in his decaying apartment building only to have it cruelly disasembled by an android.
More to come...
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