Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Themes

Put away that Mensa application and stop studying for that IQ test: in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the key question isn't how smart you are but how emotionally smart you are. Not IQ; EQ.D...

There's a lot to look forward to in the future. The iPhone 96 will come out, Iron Man 11 will be released, and civilization will be destroyed. Fun stuff like that. The remains of civilization's str...

The natural world is a hot mess in 2021. We can practically hear Earth remembering the last Ice Age fondly, thinking to itself, "Aw, those were the days, weren't they?" Pristine snow, awesome wooll...

We did the math, and Philip K. Dick's worlds contain, on average, 3.74 versions of reality. (Okay, we totally did not do actual math.) For Dick, realities aren't like in the Matrix or Narnia, where...

Characters in Do Androids Dream? don't carry the usual character ID cards of "good guy," "bad guy," or "comic relief sidekick." They're fluid concepts, shifting and changing depending on their envi...

There's a lot of isolation in Do Androids Dream? and not just because Facebook isn't a thing. In the year 2021, the remnants of humanity live in cities to be closer together, but they're not exactl...

Imagine: A government crushes a peaceful protest using tanks and guns against people armed with picket signs and no tanks. Then, the government uses a special device that alters people's memories,...

In science fiction, violence can sometimes feel sterile or matter-of-fact. Think about all those poor stormtroopers that the heroes of the Star Wars series have gunned and/or lightsabered down. Did...