# Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 20 Dec 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Mr Mnemonic *20 Dec 2000, 12:41* Not a movie, but a nother non-wolfe-related reccomendation ^-^ Do Androids Deam of Electric Sheep, by Phillip K. Dick is an astounding book. While the style of writing does differ from that of Wolfe's, just about everyone that I've given this book to has said they loved it. I would assume that any of you scifi fiends out there like me have already read and discussed it, but I'm also sure there are some out there that haven't. This book was the inspiration for the movie "Blade Runner", and makes a lovely conversation piece if anyone cares to rant whilst we wait. -Mnemonic P.S. If anyone wants to get a copy, I believe it has now been reprinted under the title "Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)" --- ### Michael Straight *21 Dec 2000, 15:48 · follows Mr Mnemonic* Dick's _The Man in the High Castle_, and _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch_ are even better, in my opinion. _High Castle_ is just plain beautiful. The book features the I Ching, and Dick supposedly actually used it when writing the book: at points where the characters consult the I Ching, he consulted it and used whatever came up to help determine how the plot would go. _Ubik_ and _Martian Timeslip_ are also good. -Rostrum --- ### Paul C Duggan *21 Dec 2000, 19:52 · follows Michael Straight* > Do Androids Deam of Electric Sheep, by Phillip K. Dick is an astounding > book. While the style of writing does differ from that of Wolfe's, just > about everyone that I've given this book to has said they loved it. I would > assume that any of you scifi fiends out there like me have already read and > discussed it, but I'm also sure there are some out there that haven't. This > book was the inspiration for the movie "Blade Runner", and makes a lovely > conversation piece if anyone cares to rant whilst we wait. SPOILERS Since the director's cut neatly resolved the issue of whether deckerd is a replicant or not, I guess the Wolfe-related question is, is Severian a replicant? What *is* up with the Severian/homoncluous/mandrake in a bottle tyhat severian considers his brother or something? I've usually found that to be confusing. Mantis seems to have had some thoughts on it... paul ---