Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick

War has left the Earth Devastated, through its ruins Deckard a bounty hunter stalks out rouge Androids.  When he isn't retiring them he dreams of owning an 'animal', the ultimate status symbol.  Then Rick gets his big assignment to kill 6 Nexus-6 targets for a large reward.  But things are never that simple.


Why read - After watching Blade Runner (which is loosely based on this book), a friend lent this book to me to read.

Usually I dont like reading books after I have watched the film, but this is one of the cases where it didnt matter. Blade runner is so loosley set from this book it makes a nice set up, and sets the stage from which to read this book from.  Not being very good at visualing fantasy books watching the film gives me a mental image to which this book is set.

I really enjoyed the story and found myself getting really into it.  Some parts of the story I do wish he plumped out a bit, and killing the androids almost seemed like a sub line to the true plot of this story.  I do almost wish they put up more of a fight or it wasn't so skirted around.  However the rest of the novel was very interesting and very hard to put down.  I really enjoyed the plot lines, and the trying to gain a live animal.  Also a very good distinction between humans and Androids and the world they live in colliding together.  You could easily imagine the decay and the set up of this story.

I would  recommended  this story to anyone, weather interested in Sci-Fi or not, its a book that I would add to a list of books to read before you die.