Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This edition features an insightful, four-age intro from Roger Zelazny who praises this "writer's writer" and covers a gamut of works beyond this one.
In the book, Deckard's obsession with buying a living animal plays into an emotional and philosophical landscape that has a magnitude of dimension as great at the gritty stylism of Scott's gritty, post-noir vision. Really the idea of lacking control and ceding personal choice through Mercerism, “better living through the mood synthesizer” and the ever-running television puts the books more in the league of Brave New World as a dark musing on a dystopic possibility where free will sublimates to numbing comfort in the absence of hope. Also, these mind- and emotion-controlling devices are springboards for effective, hallucinogenic passages as Deckard looks into the abyss of monstrous androids and looking back at him, it infects him with an existential panic.
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