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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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Author Biography

Name: Philip K. Dick
Birth Date: December 16, 1928
Death Date: March 2, 1982
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Place of Death: Santa Ana, California
Gender: Male

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Biography of Philip K(indred) Dick
4259 words, approx. 14.2 pages
From Philip K. Dick's first sale of a story entitled "Roog" to Anthony Boucher of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1952 and his first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub" in Planet Stories in the same year (both collected in The Best of P...
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Biography of Philip K. Dick
2578 words, approx. 8.6 pages
The fictional worlds of Philip K. Dick are populated by strange creatures and situations: men with enormous steel teeth, private detectives who own electric animals, self-governing insane asylums. It is from these bizarre places that Dick allows himself...


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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Information
6,929 words, approx. 23 pages
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, written in 1966 and published in 1968. It tells of the moral crisis of Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who stalks androids in a fallout-clouded, partially-deserted future...


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Speciesism and species being in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(Critical essay)
03/01/2007: 7,527 words, approx. 25 pages
Criticism on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has focused on androids and ignored animals. The novel's ethical concerns are best understood through animal studies, revealing political deployments of the species boundary to disenfranchise certain humans. The novel suggests another model of subjectivity best...
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Internal Medicine News
Do androids dream of electric camels?(INDICATIONS)(Brief Article)
11/01/2005: 289 words, approx. 1 pages
Sports injuries are not limited to the western hemisphere. Children working as jockeys in camel races in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar also experience significant trauma. The child jockeys have quite a distance to fall when they lose their grip on the saddle....
 


Criticism and Essays
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Cyborgs: a Twisted Double Standard
2,132 words, approx. 7 pages
Discusses the meaning, purpose, and future of cyborgs and cybernetics, referencing the movie Terminator and the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.


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