Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

(He instead directed his energies to what would become his final novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Dick, fearing the de facto suppression of his original novel, declined. The producers behind Blade Runner, concerned that the differences between the novel and the film would confuse potential readers, asked Dick to write a novelization of the film’s screenplay.

New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1982. Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). The mysterious savior Wilbur Mercer and the “empathy boxes” used by his followers became a major plot element in Androids, providing the vehicle for much of the novel’s explorations of the concept of empathy. In the case of Androids, there is one major short story source: “The Little Black Box,” published in 1964, which deals with the rise of the religion of Mercerism. Many of Dick’s novels draw on material published earlier in his short stories. “The Little Black Box.” Illustrations by George Schelling. Ī British edition was published the following year. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? London: Rapp and Whiting, 1969. Doubleday’s hardcover release of Androids demonstrates the increasing respect Dick’s work received throughout the 1960s. The rest were released as paperbacks, most of them for Ace Books, then the largest publisher of science fiction. īy the time Androids was published in 1968, Dick had published twenty-two other novels, only four of which first appeared in hardcover. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick