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SUMMARY:Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) - Philip K. Dic
 k
DESCRIPTION:All remaining places to this meeting will be £5 with all proce
 eds going to the National Literacy Trust.\n\n\n\nWorld War Terminus had le
 ft the Earth devastated. Through its ruins\, bounty hunter Rick Deckard st
 alked\, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wa
 sn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon\, he dreamed of owning a live a
 nimal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal li
 fe. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets\,
  for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple\,
  and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subter
 fuge and deceit -- and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the 
 hunted . . .\n\nDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a book that most p
 eople think they remember\, and almost always get more or less wrong. Ridl
 ey Scott's film Blade Runner took a lot from it\, and threw a lot away\; w
 onderful in itself\, it is a flash thriller where Dick's novel is a sober 
 meditation. As we all know\, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is stalking a grou
 p of androids returned from space with short life spans and murder on thei
 r minds--where Scott's Deckard was Harrison Ford\, Dick's is a financially
  over-stretched municipal employee with bills to pay and a depressed wife.
  In a world where most animals have died\, and pet-keeping is a social dut
 y\, he can only afford a robot imitation\, unless he gets a big financial 
 break. The genetically warped "chickenhead" John Isidore has visions of a 
 tomb-world where entropy has finally won. And everyone plugs in to the spi
 ritual agony of Mercer\, whose sufferings for the sins of humanity are bro
 adcast several times a day. Prefiguring the religious obsessions of Dick's
  last novels\, this asks dark questions about identity and altruism. After
  all\, is it right to kill the killers just because Mercer says so?\n\n\n
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