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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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I could tell you that the anxiety-ridden hunt for human-like androids in this book represents the queasy quest for authenticity of the late 1960s. I could tell you that the "othering" of the androids, who are hunted and killed as threats to society, reflects a critique of the Vietnam War from the perspective of Berkeley, California—where the author live…

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