Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Resources

The Philip K. Dick Fansite in all its digital glory.

The entry for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is located in the Internet Science Fiction Database. You can find a bevy of excellent reviews and awards at the bottom of the entry.

Can you find Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on the Guardian's list of top science fiction and fantasy novels? It's also on The Guardian's list of 1000 novels that everyone should read.

You know you've made it when you have an award in your memory. As this website proves, Philip K. Dick has made it.

Directed by Ridley Scott, Blade Runner is the 1982 adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It's a little confusing as we're reasonably sure the words blade and runner don't appear side-by-side in the novel, but that's how it goes.

A New York Times blogger, the Opinionator, discusses Philip K. Dick as both science fiction writer and philosopher.

Here's an interview with the playwright/director who was crazy enough to adapt Dick's novel for the stage. Perhaps, he's just crazy enough to make it work.

Is this: (1) An awesome band name or (2) the name of an essay on transcending humanity in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Trick question! It's both.

Science fiction scholars write an essay based on their conversations on Philip K. Dick's fiction.

Carlo Pagetti discusses how Dick's fiction both accepts science fiction motifs and breaks them down at the same time. Twistedly good stuff.

Jesse Hicks discusses a gathering of Philip K. Dick fans in San Francisco to celebrate his legacy and how his works were brought back from obscurity just in time.

The androids escaped from a life very similar to chattel slavery—that is, slavery where the slave is thought of as property rather than a person in bondage. We thought we'd take this moment to link to this article in New Internationalist Magazine discussing the type of slavery in our modern world.

The 1982 theatrical trailer for Blade Runner, the film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie is completely different than the novel, but in this case, that's not such a bad thing.

Don't tell anyone we told you, but YouTube has Blade Runner: The Final Cut Special Edition, the latest update to the original 1982 version of the movie. Coming out next year is Blade Runner: The Ultimate Final Unedited Director's Vision Edition in Space!

We always knew there was something off about Sean Young; we just didn't know what. This clip from Blade Runner tells you exactly what it is.

Why Philip K. Dick Matters is a documentary on why Philip K. Dick matters… pretty self-explanatory really.

The Penultimate Truth is a documentary on the life and works of Philip K. Dick. Which one was more fantastical, his life or his works, is for you to decide.

Well, did he? Did he?

Part 1 of the audiobook for Do Androids Read of Electric Sheep?, read by Matthew Modine and Calista Flockhart, a.k.a. Queen of the Nerds.

The 1994 audiobook but read page-by-page to the 2009 graphic novel adaptation by BOOM! Studios.

An interview with Philip K. Dick set roughly 10 years after the publication of Androids.

Another interview Philip K. Dick did on this thing called radio, whatever that is.

The 1st-edition cover of Dick's masterpiece, and it's a masterpiece in-and-of-itself.

The most recent edition of the novel's cover, and the one likely hanging out in a bookstore near you.

A photo of Philip K. Dick sporting his writer's beard. (Didn't you know that all writers are required to have beards? It's in the union by-laws.)

Dick got his very own android, and here it is. Lucky guy!

Fan art of the future as envisioned by Dick. It's very… urban.

A page sample from the BOOM! Studio comic book adaptation—sorry, sorry, we meant graphic novel adaptation. Don't send us hate mail.

Edvard Munch's The Scream and Puberty, both featured prominently during the hunt for one Luba Luft.

They're electric. 'Nuff said.

Because you know you wanted this.