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

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Jul 11, 2012 2 min read Books>Fiction4starPhilip K. Dickscifi

Rating: 4/5 Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996). There was a lull in the flow of books from the library, so I picked something off my shelf to re-read. I hadn’t read this story for many years. I had forgotten how great it was! Philip K. Dick was as much a philosopher...

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"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick

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Apr 21, 2012 2 min read Books>Fiction4staraddictionPhilip K. Dickscifi

Rating: 4/5 Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (New York: Doubleday, 2011 [1977]). I studied Philip K. Dick’s (PDK) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner) in a college English class and just loved it. I went out and read a bunch of PKD’s short stories. I had heard the title A...

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Aaron Dalton
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