Rick Deckard hunts androids for a living. The androids look human, think like humans, feel like humans β maybe. In a post-nuclear San Francisco where real animals are status symbols and empathy is tested with machines, the question isn't whether androids are alive. It's whether Deckard is. The novel that became Blade Runner.
Clean β philosophical sci-fi.
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Moods: Philosophical Noir Existential Bleak
Tropes: Android Hunting What Is Human Post-Apocalyptic Identity
The film is a loose adaptation β the novel is weirder, more philosophical, and includes Mercerism.
240 pages β Dick was famously prolific and concise.
Most famous β fans debate between this, Ubik, and VALIS.