‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ is a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been reduced to a ball of mud and rubble. The radioactive dust rains down, slowly degrading the remaining life. The life that is left has become extremely valuable, and people keep animals as their most sacred possession, those who can’t afford one buy false, electric ones.
Almost all of human society has emigrated to the colonies on Mars, and anyone left is forcefully encouraged by government. In the colonies, each person gets their own android - a mechanical assistant and companion that looks and acts exactly like a human. Occasionally, an android malfunctions and tries to escape from mars. Some succeed though this entails killing its owners and then …show more content…
He goes to an animal dealership where he purchases a black nubian goat and brings it home to Iran as a surprise. She is delighted and insists that they must share their joy with Mercer and all the others. Rick takes the handles and instantly fuses in. He asks Mercer if his job was morally correct, to which he receive the reply "what must be done, must be done".
Rick is interrupted by a phone call from his superiors at the station asking - begging him to finish the job as he is the only one who can. With encouragement from Iran, he doubtfully obliges. On his way to the reported location of the remaining androids, he gets a call from Rachel Rosen. She tries to seduce him, but when he pushes her away, she yells at Rick that his empathy is flawed... She says he cares about the goat first, then his wife, and only then her. She proceeds to angrily hang up. Rick blows this off and continues on his mission.
Once at the target location, he meets John F. Isadore, a chickenhead - someone whose brain has been degraded by the dust and is not allowed to emigrate to a colony. (We hear a few chapters from his perspective at the beginning, but the only important thing to know that he feels rejected by society so he is harboring the final three androids.) Because he has made a promise to them, Isadore politely refuses to help Rick find the androids however he does not try to to stop him either as he has discovered how little they care …show more content…
In his rage, he takes his car up to the Oregon border, an area now completely deserted. After letting out his anger, he notices a small toad, a species once thought to be extinct. He realizes that this could get him millions in prize money. He carefully picks up the road and rushes home. Unfortunately when he shows the road to Iran, she notices that it is electric - a toy escaped from it's owner that made its way to northern California. Rick doesn't seem to care and the story ends with him asleep, getting his long-deserved peace while Iran orders the materials for caring for the toad as if it was
Almost all of human society has emigrated to the colonies on Mars, and anyone left is forcefully encouraged by government. In the colonies, each person gets their own android - a mechanical assistant and companion that looks and acts exactly like a human. Occasionally, an android malfunctions and tries to escape from mars. Some succeed though this entails killing its owners and then …show more content…
He goes to an animal dealership where he purchases a black nubian goat and brings it home to Iran as a surprise. She is delighted and insists that they must share their joy with Mercer and all the others. Rick takes the handles and instantly fuses in. He asks Mercer if his job was morally correct, to which he receive the reply "what must be done, must be done".
Rick is interrupted by a phone call from his superiors at the station asking - begging him to finish the job as he is the only one who can. With encouragement from Iran, he doubtfully obliges. On his way to the reported location of the remaining androids, he gets a call from Rachel Rosen. She tries to seduce him, but when he pushes her away, she yells at Rick that his empathy is flawed... She says he cares about the goat first, then his wife, and only then her. She proceeds to angrily hang up. Rick blows this off and continues on his mission.
Once at the target location, he meets John F. Isadore, a chickenhead - someone whose brain has been degraded by the dust and is not allowed to emigrate to a colony. (We hear a few chapters from his perspective at the beginning, but the only important thing to know that he feels rejected by society so he is harboring the final three androids.) Because he has made a promise to them, Isadore politely refuses to help Rick find the androids however he does not try to to stop him either as he has discovered how little they care …show more content…
In his rage, he takes his car up to the Oregon border, an area now completely deserted. After letting out his anger, he notices a small toad, a species once thought to be extinct. He realizes that this could get him millions in prize money. He carefully picks up the road and rushes home. Unfortunately when he shows the road to Iran, she notices that it is electric - a toy escaped from it's owner that made its way to northern California. Rick doesn't seem to care and the story ends with him asleep, getting his long-deserved peace while Iran orders the materials for caring for the toad as if it was