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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco after a nuclear war has made Earth's atmosphere radioactive. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with tracking down six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a radiation-damaged man who shelters the fugitive androids.
Yes. Hampton Fancher and David Peoples wrote a loose cinematic adaptation that Ridley Scott directed, released as Blade Runner in 1982. Following the film's international success, some later printings of the novel adopted the Blade Runner title, even though the term never appeared in Dick's original text. A 2017 sequel film, Blade Runner 2049, also retained many themes from the novel.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. It was nominated for the Nebula Award that same year and placed 51st in the 1998 Locus Poll All-Time Best SF Novel list for works published before 1990.
The two main characters are Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter for the San Francisco Police Department who is assigned to retire six escaped Nexus-6 androids, and John R. Isidore, a radiation-damaged man of below-average intelligence who encounters and shelters the fugitive androids. Rachael Rosen, a Nexus-6 android employed by the Rosen Association in Seattle, also plays a significant role in Deckard's mission.
Three authorized sequels were written by K. W. Jeter, a friend of Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995), Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (1996), and Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon (2000). They continue the story of Rick Deckard and attempt to reconcile differences between the novel and the 1982 film.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a two-part audio adaptation in June 2014, starring James Purefoy and Jessica Raine and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. BOOM! Studios published a 24-issue comic series illustrated by Tony Parker that earned a 2010 Eisner Award nomination for Best New Series. A stage adaptation written by Edward Einhorn ran in New York in late 2010 and premiered on the West Coast in September 2013 at the Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles. In 2025, Sevan Kirder's Thalassor released a concept album called empathy.exe based on the novel.