Genre
Philosophical science fiction
A strange, searching classic about empathy and artificial life.
Genre
Philosophical science fiction
Subgenre
Android identity novel
Original publication
1968
Original publisher
Doubleday
Pages
244
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
Post-war San Francisco
ISBN
9780345404473
Original title
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A bounty hunter tracks androids while questions of empathy, reality and personhood become increasingly unstable.
A natural fit for readers asking about artificial intelligence, empathy, identity, dystopian cities and what makes someone human.
The novel is compact but philosophically slippery, using a detective chase to unsettle human certainty.
It supports intent around AI, androids, identity, moral ambiguity and future anxiety.
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