This Christmas…
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968), first edition, 210 pages, gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (5.75″ x 8.5″), dust jacket. Jacket design by Harry Sehring. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the seminal science fiction novels, especially in the pantheon of modern science fiction. Strangely, the novel is almost less famous now than the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner. Like most film adaptations, however, the quality of the film does not approach that of the book. Dick’s multi-textured post-apocalyptic tale of off-world humans and their interactions with human-like androids has been popular since its publication in 1968.
If anybody is wondering what to get me this Christmas.