Blade Runner - Les Martin, Philip K. Dick • BookLikes (ISBN:0394853032)

Blade Runner

by: Les Martin (author) Philip K. Dick (author)

In the year 2019, lifelike robots clash with their human makers in an effort to alter the destiny for which they have been programmed.

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Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780394853031 (0394853032)

Publish date: May 12th 1982

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Pages no: 91

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, American, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic

Series: Blade Runner (#1)

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Kenny Loves to Read rated it

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http://Kenechi.booklikes.com Kenny Loves to Read 4.0

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Not sure I would ever have read this if it wasn't for the movie adaptation but I enjoyed it. I think it may have been more powerful back in the time it was written but there were enough thought provoking elements to keep it feeling relevant for me. It's pretty different from the movie so don't expec...

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

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http://antao.booklikes.com Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 5.0 Reality and Illusion: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

text Reality and Illusion: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

The one faithful film adaptation of a PKD story I'm aware of was the Linklater version of A Scanner Darkly. All the others take a major conceptual element of the story's basic premise, but then seriously alter the narrative in ways that often make them very different thematically. I really liked the...

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Lillelara rated it

2 years ago

http://lillelara.booklikes.com Lillelara 4.0 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

text Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I tried to write something resembling a coherent review, but I can´t come up with anything else besides the fact that I really enjoyed this book and the questions about humanity it poses. What makes us human? Empathy, compassion and love? And is artificial intelligence able to experience the same em...

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The better to see you, my dear rated it

2 years ago

http://Zanahoria.booklikes.com The better to see you, my dear 4.5 Measuring humanity

text Measuring humanity

I don't know whether to be hopeful or depressed. I think I'm a good deal of both, plus amazed, and horror stricken. There is a lot of the Sisyphean in this, which I guess is on purpose, given all the Mercer stuff (which on the last pages got trippy as fuck, of the religious hallucination variety). ...

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Obsidian Blue rated it

2 years ago

http://oblue.booklikes.com Obsidian Blue 4.0 Great Look at Book that Inspired Blade Runner

text Great Look at Book that Inspired Blade Runner

Wow. I really did enjoy this book a lot. The main reason I only gave this four stars was that I was and am still confused about the character of Mercer. I just don't get what Phillip K. Dick was doing with regards to him. Everything else I thought worked well though. The plot, writing, setting of a ...

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