Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 1968
Dick's true subject is always empathy: what it is, whether it can be faked, whether its absence makes you less than human. The novel that *Blade Runner* adapted asks deeper questions than the film. What does it mean to feel?
The case against
Dick's ideas outrun his sentences, as usual. The prose is functional at best, the women are wives or femmes fatales, and whole subplots, Buster Friendly and the fake police station among them, flare up and fizzle. Mercerism gets gestured at more than built. Come for the questions about empathy; accept that the novel around them is held together with tape.
Science Fiction & Fantasy · the Pro canon
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