Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philipp K. Dick

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Blade runner is haunting me since I am a teenager. I discovered three things about the book, first, the novel was named “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and not Blade runner, two it is not all about replicants, and finally this novel is superb. The movie focuses a lot on the hunt, Tyrell corporation, and humanity vs artificiality. Don’t get me wrong the book is all about that too, but there is so much more. I discovered about Mercerism’s and the quest for humanity to renew with empathy, humans lost unity and face a terrible world in this book. The novel describes also what is the daily life of humanity after World War Terminus, and develops the struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war has irradiated the Earth. The book is very dark, with decay, oblivion, and resignation being the new normal in a world where dust is toxic, most animals are extinct, and humans adopt fake electronic pets and lie to themselves to support the world around them. The story takes place in 2021 (in 1992 in earlier editions)  and this dystopian science fiction novel is a projection of a world that currently does not exist. Luckily that will never be the case, however, the book pushes us to ask ourselves some crucial questions about the world we want to build for the future. The novel first published in 1968 is terribly effective, and hopeless, you will enjoy the dialogues, characters, and the description of a world we never want to see.



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