Meet the Cast
Rick Deckard
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who is about to have one bad day. Within the space of twenty-four hours, he'll have to kill six state-of-the-art androids, have an inter-galactic corporation mess wi...
John Isidore
John Isidore lives by himself in a San Francisco apartment. Not just a single apartment, mind you. He is the only one living in the entire apartment building, which means life is pretty lonely exis...
Rachael Rosen
Rachael Rosen is the novel's equivalent of the femme fatale. By that we don't mean she's the novel's Britney Spears album or Antonio Banderas movie or song by the Velvet Underground and Nico or—p...
Iran Deckard
Iran Deckard is—you guessed it—Rick's wife. She starts the day in a bad way as she dialed for six hours of self-accusatory depression on the Penfield. Sure, this is kind of her own fault for di...
Pris Stratton
Sister, SisterPris doesn't want to move in with Isidore because the "'chickenhead'" likes her, and she finds the idea all kinds of icky (14.36). So, we're going to go with a diagnosis of severe sel...
Luba Luft
We're going to be honest here: We don't know why this character is named after a German word meaning "air," and we really don't know why a supposedly German android is named after the Luba, an indi...
Phil Resch
Abandon all spoilers, ye who enter here. Our analysis of Phil Resch's character is going to be chock-full of spoilers. This is because we really can't talk about him without revealing whether he is...
Roy and Irmgard Baty
Roy and Irmgard Baty are perhaps the most functional couple in the novel, and that's really saying something when you consider that they're two Martian androids on the lam who have no qualms over a...
Buster Friendly
Imagine if Jay Leno, Conan O'Brian, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Hardwick, and David Letterman were put into a giant centrifuge and spun around at such force that they merged into a mega-talk show host. Hor...
Minor Characters
Max Polokov, a.k.a. Sandor KadalyiThis android got the drop on Dave Holden, shooting him in the back. He pretended to be Sandor Kadalyi, a USSR police officer, and tried to keep the streak alive wi...