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Blade Runner
- Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force.
Praise for Philip K. Dick
“[Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from.” - Rolling Stone
“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”- The New York Times
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- T Hobbes
- 12-11-21
Thoroughly enjoyable
Once I'd started I found it difficult to put down. I'd recommend to any sci-fi fan.
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- Minna
- 13-02-15
Weird title
This is the book"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", calling it any other thing is just weird. It doesn't change the fact though, that it's a great story and performance.
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- PL
- 29-09-17
enjoyable
as usual the film industry takes what it can use and makes a movie which is quite different from the novel it was born of. the book has depth and the reader is good as usual. enjoy.
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- Steven
- 29-01-19
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App repeatedly failing . Timer not working. story was fibe. narration good. app not working properly.
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- Niall Linnane
- 16-06-23
Excellently read
Voice actor was absolutely perfect for the narration. Perfectly appropriate for the atmosphere of the novel
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- Matthew N. Dugas
- 07-10-23
Good
I first read this years ago and was surprised then by how very different it is from the film…listening to it now as an audiobook seemed to add something and I enjoyed it more. The narration is good, my only slight criticism being it’s rather slow & in my opinion sounds better when listened to at 1.5x normal speed.
Not sure why they decided to change the dates from those in the original book.
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- Paul
- 22-08-09
Great book, slow Reader
Big fan of Philip K Dick & this is a classic.
The only criticism for me is the readers slow rather soporific delivery that rather downplays the faster moving pace & excitement of the story.
Doesn't really help when you speed up on your listening device either, then it sounds unnatural.
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- kerrymay
- 04-02-12
Droning voice matched droning narrative
I felt that the reading matched the style of the voice perfectly i.e. world-weary narrator, inescapable doom.
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- William
- 01-06-09
Fantastic book, fantastically read
One of the best books on audible.
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- LENGTHIAN
- 09-12-22
quality science fiction
I quite like the performer he does a good job of differentiating between the characters puts the right in election of things quality overall.
the story is a lot more nuanced than I was expecting really good science fiction with a good message about the value of life.
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