by Philip K. Dick · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781473222687
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«Blade Runner» is the science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, published by Orion Publishing Group in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In a devastated future, bounty hunter Rick Deckard pursues fugitive artificial beings while longing for a live animal, a status symbol in a world without fauna. His assignment to eliminate the Nexus-6 drags him into a web of deceit where the line between human and artificial blurs.
Original title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; the cover links this edition to the movie Blade Runner. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1968.
For readers of science fiction and dystopias seeking a reflection on identity and humanity in a technological environment.
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.
