Do androids dream of electric: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 - Brossura

Dick, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0575094184 ISBN 13: 9780575094185

Casa editrice: Orion, 2010

Riassunto

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon,
he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.

Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ...

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Recensione:

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac (Sunday Times)

My literary hero (Fay Weldon)

For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first (Terry Gilliam)

Descrizione del libro:

Philip K. Dick's classic SF novel, which was adapted as the film BLADE RUNNER.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0575094184
• ISBN 13: 9780575094185
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208