#90 in Classics
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
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Our view
This short, restless novel suits those who like their science fiction dark, tense and more concerned with unease than with action. A bounty hunter pursues six escaped androids through a ruined San Francisco, while a second thread follows a man who helps them. Readers who know the story from the screen sometimes find the book’s world more sketched than fully realised.
Worth knowing Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel is the source of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), though the film drops much of it, including Mercerism, a shared religion of empathy, and the status of owning a real animal, which drives Rick Deckard. Dick saw early footage and approved, but died in March 1982, three months before the film opened. The novel is short and stranger than the film.
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About the book
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who has to "retire" six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of low IQ who aids the fugitive androids.
Reading order · Blade Runner
Full order & progress →No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
- Blade Runner 2: The Edge of HumanStart hereBlade Runner 2: The Edge of Human–Not ranked yet
- Blade Runner 3: Replicant NightBlade Runner 3: Replicant Night–Not ranked yet
- Blade Runner 4: Eye and TalonBlade Runner 4: Eye and Talon–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 2,523 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 94% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Classics average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 160 | 6% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 41 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 2.3K | 92% |
Frequently asked
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It has 224 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Classics.
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