by Philip K. Dick · Gollancz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857988123
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«Blade Runner» is the science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, published by Gollancz in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In a war-ravaged Earth, owning a live animal is a status symbol. Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter, must retire six fugitive Nexus-6 androids hiding among humans. His hunt leads him to question what makes a being human. It is the work on which the film Blade Runner was based.
«Blade Runner» is the title of this 1999 edition; the novel was originally published in 1968 as «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?», nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
For readers of science fiction and dystopias, and for those who want to discover the original novel that inspired the film Blade Runner.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.
