NineteenEighty-Four, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451—one reaches the hallucinatory creations of Philip K.
Dick, best known as the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the classic cult film Blade Runner is based (the Amazon Prime show Electric Dreams is an anthology of Dick’s short stories).
Yet, Blade Runner, one of the most influential sci-fi movies ever made, barely scratches the surface of what Dick conceived.In the book, all animals have gone extinct, and the most prized status symbols in a technologically advanced but joyless human society are lifelike mechanical pets—the bigger they are, the more valuable.