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A review by jollyquaker
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
4.0
'And I finally found a setting for despair... So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything.'
This is a novel both dystopian and sardonic. In a world where nearly all non-human animal life has been eradicated, humanity disappointingly continues to value animals purely as commodities, although their rarity now makes them status symbols, leading to a ridiculous market for life-like robotic goats and ostriches. This aspect of the plot was far more interesting to me than the android-hunting that became 'Blade Runner'. Although I prefer PKD's 'A Scanner Darkly', I still enjoyed it, reading it perhaps too quickly. It deserves a second read.
It's very 'male gaze-y' (lots of mentions of 'small high breasts'), so I couldn't give it 5*.
This is a novel both dystopian and sardonic. In a world where nearly all non-human animal life has been eradicated, humanity disappointingly continues to value animals purely as commodities, although their rarity now makes them status symbols, leading to a ridiculous market for life-like robotic goats and ostriches. This aspect of the plot was far more interesting to me than the android-hunting that became 'Blade Runner'. Although I prefer PKD's 'A Scanner Darkly', I still enjoyed it, reading it perhaps too quickly. It deserves a second read.
It's very 'male gaze-y' (lots of mentions of 'small high breasts'), so I couldn't give it 5*.