Now featuring updated art, here is the classic scifi novel, Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, retitled Blade Runner
to celebrate the movies it inspired.
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 built
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.
