Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - Wikipedia Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? For other uses, see Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( disambiguation ). `` Blade Runner ( 1982 novel ) '' redirects here. For the 1982 novelization of the 1982 film, see Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? Cover of first hardback edition Author Philip K. Dick Country United States Language English Genre Science fiction, philosophical fiction Publisher Doubleday Publication date 1968 Media type Print ( hardback & paperback ) Pages 210 61,237 words OCLC 34818133 Followed by Blade Runner 2 : The Edge of Human Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( retitled Blade Runner : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? in some later printings ) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth 's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war. Most animal species are endangered or extinct from extreme radiation poisoning, so that owning an animal is now a sign of status and empathy, an attitude encouraged towards animals. The book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner, and many elements and themes from it were used in its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is tasked with `` retiring '' ( i.e. killing ) six escaped Nexus - 6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids. In connection with Deckard 's mission, the novel explores the issue of what it is to be human. Unlike humans, the androids are said to possess no sense of empathy. Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Background 1.2 Plot summary 2 Adaptations 2.1 Film 2.2 Radio 2.3 Audiobook 2.4 Theater 2.5 Comic books 3 Sequels 4 Critical reception 5 Awards and honors 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Synopsis Background In post-apocalyptic 1992 ( 2021 in later editions ), after `` World War Terminus '', the Earth 's dirty atmosphere leads the United Nations to encourage mass emigrations to off - world colonies to preserve humanity 's genetic integrity, with the incentive of free personal androids : robot servants identical to humans. On Earth, owning real live animals is a status symbol, because of mass extinctions and the cultural push for greater empathy that has motivated a technology - based religion called Mercerism. Poor people can only afford realistic - looking electric animals. Deckard, for example, owns a robotic black - faced sheep. Mercerism uses `` empathy boxes '' to link users simultaneously to a collective virtual reality of communal suffering, centered on a martyr - like character, Wilbur Mercer, who eternally climbs up a hill while being hit with crashing stones. The story also contains passing mention of `` Penfield mood organs '', which fill the role played by mind - altering drugs in other Dick stories. The technology can induce any desired mood in the people nearby, such as `` an optimistic business - like attitude '' or `` the desire to watch television, no matter what is on ''. A passage in the opening chapter has Deckard and his wife, Iran, discussing what settings to use to start the day. She announces that she has scheduled six hours of `` existential despair '' for later in order to deal with their loneliness in an almost - deserted apartment building. Plot summary Bounty hunter Rick Deckard signs on to a new police mission in order to earn enough money to buy a live animal to replace his electric sheep, seeking greater existential fulfillment for himself and his depressed wife, Iran. The mission involves hunting down ( `` retiring '' ) six Nexus - 6 androids that violently went rogue after their creation by the Rosen Association, and fled Mars for Earth. Deckard visits the Rosen headquarters in Seattle to confirm the validity of a question - and - answer empathy test : a method for identifying any androids posing as humans. Deckard is greeted by Rachael Rosen, who quickly fails his test. Rachael attempts to bribe Deckard into silence, but he verifies that she is indeed a Nexus - 6 model used by Rosen to attempt to discredit the test. Deckard soon meets a Soviet police contact who turns out to be one of the disguised Nexus - 6 renegades. Deckard retires the android, then flies off to retire his next target : an opera singer. This android, however, has him arrested and detained at a police department he has never heard of by a police officer whom he is surprised never to have met. At this strange station, Deckard 's worldview is shaken when an official named Garland accuses Deckard himself of being an android. After a series of mysterious revelations at the station, Deckard ponders the ethical and philosophical questions his line of work raises regarding android intelligence, empathy, and what it means to be human. Phil Resch, the station 's resident bounty hunter, retrieves testing equipment to determine if his coworkers -- including Deckard and Resch himself -- are androids or humans. Garland subsequently reveals that the entire station is a sham, staffed entirely by androids, including Garland himself. Resch shoots Garland in the head and escapes with Deckard ; together, they find and arrest the opera singer, whom Resch brutally retires in cold blood. Although Resch and Deckard are now collaborators, each still worries that he ( or his partner ) might be an android. Deckard administers the empathy test to himself and Resch, which confirms that Resch is a human being -- if a particularly ruthless one -- and that Deckard is also human, but with empathy for the androids. Only three of the Nexus - 6 android fugitives remain, and one, Pris Stratton, moves into an apartment building whose only other inhabitant is John R. Isidore, a radioactively damaged, intellectually slow human classified as a `` special. '' The lonely Isidore attempts to befriend her. Roy and Irmgard Baty, the final two rogue androids, visit the building, and together they all plan how to survive. Meanwhile, Deckard buys Iran an authentic Nubian goat with his reward money. After quitting, Deckard is pulled back in after being notified of a new lead and experiencing a vision of the prophet - like Mercer confusingly telling him to proceed, despite the immorality of the mission. Deckard calls on Rachael Rosen again, since her own knowledge as an android will aid his investigation. Rachael reveals that she and Pris are the same exact model, meaning that he will have to shoot down an android that looks just like her. Rachael coaxes Deckard into sex, after which they confess their love for one another. However, she reveals she has slept with many bounty hunters, having been programmed to do so in order to dissuade them from their missions. After threatening to kill her, Deckard abruptly leaves. Isidore develops friendships with the three android fugitives, and they all watch a television program giving definitive evidence that Mercerism is a hoax. Roy Baty tells Isidore that the show was produced by androids to discredit Mercerism and blur the distinction with humans. Suddenly Deckard enters the building, with supernatural premonitions of Mercer appearing to both him and Isidore. Since they attack him first, Deckard is legally justified in shooting down all three androids without testing them. Isidore is devastated, and Deckard is soon rewarded for a record number of Nexus - 6 kills in a single day. When Deckard returns home, he finds Iran grieving because Rachael Rosen had recently shown up and killed their goat. Deckard goes to an uninhabited, obliterated region of Oregon to reflect. He climbs a hill when he is hit by falling rocks and realizes this is an experience eerily similar to Mercer 's martyrdom. Rushing back to his car, he stumbles abruptly upon a toad, an animal previously thought to be extinct, and one of the animals sacred to Mercer. With newfound joy, Deckard brings the toad home, where Iran quickly discovers it is just a robot. While Deckard is unhappy, he decides that he at least prefers to know the truth, making the remark that `` the electrical things have their lives too, paltry as those lives are. '' Adaptations Film Main article : Blade Runner In 1982, Hampton Fancher and David Peoples wrote a loose cinematic adaptation that became the film Blade Runner, featuring several of the novel 's characters. It was directed by Ridley Scott. Following the international success of the film, the title Blade Runner was adopted for some later editions of the novel, although the term itself was not used in the original. Radio As part of their Dangerous Visions dystopia series in 2014, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a two - part adaptation of the novel. It was produced and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko from an adaption by Jonathan Holloway. It stars James Purefoy as Rick Deckard and Jessica Raine as Rachael Rosen. The episodes were originally broadcast on Sunday 15 June and 22 June 2014. Audiobook The novel has been released in audiobook form at least twice. A version was released in 1994 that featured Matthew Modine and Calista Flockhart. A new audiobook version was released in 2007 by Random House Audio to coincide with the release of Blade Runner : The Final Cut. This version, read by Scott Brick, is unabridged and runs approximately 9.5 hours over eight CDs. This version is a tie - in, using the Blade Runner : The Final Cut film poster and Blade Runner title. Theater A stage adaptation of the book, written by Edward Einhorn, ran from November 18 to December 10, 2010 at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York and made its West Coast Premiere on September 13, playing until October 10, 2013 at the Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles. Comic books BOOM ! Studios published a 24 - issue comic book limited series based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? containing the full text of the novel illustrated by artist Tony Parker. The comic garnered a nomination for `` Best New Series '' from the 2010 Eisner Awards. In May 2010 BOOM ! Studios began serializing an eight issue prequel subtitled Dust To Dust and written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Robert Adler. The story took place in the days immediately after World War Terminus. Sequels Three novels intended to serve as sequels to both Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? and Blade Runner have been published : Blade Runner 2 : The Edge of Human ( 1995 ) Blade Runner 3 : Replicant Night ( 1996 ) Blade Runner 4 : Eye and Talon ( 2000 ) These official and authorized sequels were written by Dick 's friend K.W. Jeter. They continue the story of Rick Deckard and attempt to reconcile many of the differences between the novel and the 1982 film. Critical reception Critical reception of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? has been overshadowed by the popularity of its 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner. Of those critics who focus on the novel, several nest it predominantly in the history of Philip K. Dick 's body of work. In particular, Dick 's 1972 speech `` The Human and the Android '' is cited in this connection. Jill Galvan calls attention to the correspondence between Dick 's portrayal of the narrative 's dystopian, polluted, man - made setting and the description Dick gives in his speech of the increasingly artificial and potentially sentient or `` quasi-alive '' environment of his present. Summarizing the essential point of Dick 's speech, Galvan argues, `` ( o ) nly by recognizing how ( technology ) has encroached upon our understanding of ' life ' can we come to full terms with the technologies we have produced '' ( 414 ). As a `` bildungsroman of the cybernetic age, '' Galvan maintains, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? follows one person 's gradual acceptance of the new reality. Christopher Palmer emphasizes Dick 's speech to bring to attention the increasingly dangerous risk of humans becoming `` mechanical ''. `` Androids threaten reduction of what makes life valuable, yet promise expansion or redefinition of it, and so do aliens and gods ''. Gregg Rickman cites another, earlier and lesser known Dick novel that also deals with androids, We Can Build You, asserting that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? can be read as a sequel. In a departure from the tendency among most critics to examine the novel in relation to Dick 's other texts, Klaus Benesch examined Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? primarily in connection with Lacan 's essay on the mirror stage. There, Lacan claims that the formation and reassurance of the self depends on the construction of an Other through imagery, beginning with a double as seen in the mirror. The androids, Benesch argues, perform a doubling function similar to the mirror image of the self, but they do this on a social, not individual, scale. Therefore, human anxiety about androids expresses uncertainty about human identity and society. Benesch draws on Kathleen Woodward 's emphasis on the body to illustrate the shape of human anxiety about an android Other. Woodward asserts that the debate over distinctions between human and machine usually fails to acknowledge the presence of the body. `` If machines are invariably contrived as technological prostheses that are designed to amplify the physical faculties of the body, they are also built, according to this logic, to outdo, to surpass the human in the sphere of physicality altogether ''. Awards and honors 1968 -- Nebula Award nominee 1998 -- Locus Poll Award, All - Time Best SF Novel before 1990 ( Place : 51 ) See also Novels portal 1960s portal Biorobotics References Jump up ^ `` Text Stats ''. Amazon.com. Retrieved 28 November 2016. Jump up ^ Note : This change counteracts a problem common to near - future stories, where the passage of time overtakes the period in which the story is set ; for a list of other works that have fallen prey to this phenomenon, see the List of stories set in a future now past. Jump up ^ Sammon, Paul M ( 1996 ). Future Noir : the Making of Blade Runner. London : Orion Media. pp. 318 -- 329. ISBN 0 - 06 - 105314 - 7. Jump up ^ `` BBC Radio 4 - Dangerous Visions, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, Episode 2 ''. bbc.co.uk. BBC Radio 4. 28 Jun 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2015. Jump up ^ Blade Runner ( Movie - Tie - In Edition ) by Philip K. Dick - Unabridged Compact Disc Random House, November 27, 2007, ISBN 978 - 0 - 7393 - 4275 - 6 ( 0 - 7393 - 4275 - 4 ). Jump up ^ `` Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ''. Untitled Theater Company # 61. Retrieved 1 January 2014. Jump up ^ `` Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ''. Sacred Fools Theater Company. Retrieved 1 January 2014. Jump up ^ Philip K. Dick Press Release - BOOM ! ANNOUNCES DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP ? Archived September 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Heller, Jason ( April 9, 2010 ). `` Eisner Award nominees announced ''. The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 24, 2013. Jump up ^ Langshaw, Mark. `` BOOM ! expands on ' Blade Runner ' universe ''. Digital Spy. Jump up ^ `` BOOM ! Studios publishes ' Electric Sheep ' prequel ''. Tyrell-corporation.pp.se. Retrieved July 24, 2013. Jump up ^ Jeter, K.W. `` Summary Bibliography : K.W. Jeter ''. Jump up ^ Galvan, Jill ( 1997 ). `` Entering the Postman Collective : Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ''. Science Fiction Studies. 24 ( 3 ) : 413 -- 429. Jump up ^ Palmer, Christopher ( 2003 ). Philip K. Dick : Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern. Liverpool : University of Liverpool Press. p. 259. ^ Jump up to : Palmer, Christopher ( 2003 ). Philip K. Dick : Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern. Liverpool : University of Liverpool Press. p. 225. Jump up ^ Rickman, Gregg ( 1995 ). `` What Is This Sickness ? '' : `` Schizophrenia '' and We Can Build You. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press. pp. 143 -- 157. Jump up ^ Benesch, Klaus ( 1999 ). `` Technology, Art, and the Cybernetic Body : The Cyborg as Cultural Other in Fritz Lang 's `` Metropolis '' and Philip K. Dick 's `` Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? '' ``. Amerikastudien / American Studies. 44 ( 3 Body / Art ) : 379 -- 392. Jump up ^ Woodward, Kathleen ( 1997 ). `` Prosthetic Emotions ''. In Hoffman, Gerhard. Emotions in the Postmodern. Heidelberg : Alfred Hornung. pp. 75 -- 107. Jump up ^ Woodward, Kathleen ( 1997 ). `` Prosthetic Emotions ''. In Hoffman, Gerhard. Emotions in the Postmodern. Heidelberg : Alfred Hornung. p. 391. Jump up ^ `` 1968 Award Winners & Nominees ''. Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009 - 09 - 27. Further reading Dick, Philip K. ( 1996 ) ( 1968 ). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?. New York : Ballantine Books. ISBN 0 - 345 - 40447 - 5. First published in Philip K. Dick : Electric Shepherd, Norstrilla Press. Zelazny, Roger ( 1975 ). `` Introduction '' Scott, Ridley ( 1982 ). Blade Runner. Warner Brothers. The Electric Sheep screensaver software is an homage to Do Androids dream of electric sheep ?. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? at Worlds Without End Criticism Benesch, Klaus ( 1999 ). `` Technology, Art, and the Cybernetic Body : The Cyborg As Cultural Other in Fritz Lang 's Metropolis and Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ''. Amerikastudien / American Studies. 44 ( 3 ) : 379 -- 392. JSTOR 41157479. Butler, Andrew M. ( 1991 ). `` Reality versus Transience : An Examination of Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? and Ridley Scott 's Blade Runner ''. In Merrifield, Jeff. Philip K. Dick : A Celebration ( Programme Book ). Epping Forest College, Loughton : Connections. Gallo, Domenico ( 2002 ). `` Avvampando gli angeli caddero : Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick e il cyberpunk ''. In Bertetti ; Scolari. Lo sguardo degli angeli : Intorno e oltre Blade Runner ( in Italian ). Torino : Testo & Immagine. pp. 206 -- 218. ISBN 88 - 8382 - 075 - 4. Galvan, Jill ( 1997 ). `` Entering the Posthuman Collective in Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ''. Science - Fiction Studies. 24 ( 3 ) : 413 -- 429. JSTOR 4240644. McCarthy, Patrick A. ( 1999 -- 2000 ). `` Do Androids Dream of Magic Flutes ? ''. Paradoxa. 5 ( 13 - 14 ) : 344 -- 352. Niv, Tal ( 2014 ). `` The Return of a Terrifying and Wonderful Creation On Our Future and Our Present ''. Haaretz. ( Hebrew ) Critical analysis of the 2014 edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? External links Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? at the Internet Book List Complete publication history and cover gallery Philip K. Dick ( works ) Novels Gather Yourselves Together ( 1950 ) Voices from the Street ( 1952 ) Solar Lottery ( 1954 ) Mary and the Giant ( 1954 ) The World Jones Made ( 1954 ) Eye in the Sky ( 1955 ) The Man Who Japed ( 1955 ) A Time for George Stavros ( 1956 ) Pilgrim on the Hill ( 1956 ) The Broken Bubble ( 1956 ) The Cosmic Puppets ( 1957 ) Puttering About in a Small Land ( 1957 ) Nicholas and the Higs ( 1958 ) Time Out of Joint ( 1958 ) In Milton Lumky Territory ( 1958 ) Confessions of a Crap Artist ( 1959 ) The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike ( 1960 ) Humpty Dumpty in Oakland ( 1960 ) Vulcan 's Hammer ( 1960 ) Dr. Futurity ( 1960 ) The Man in the High Castle ( 1961 ) We Can Build You ( 1962 ) Martian Time - Slip ( 1962 ) Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb ( 1963 ) The Game - Players of Titan ( 1963 ) The Simulacra ( 1963 ) The Crack in Space ( 1963 ) Clans of the Alphane Moon ( 1964 ) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ( 1964 ) The Zap Gun ( 1964 ) The Penultimate Truth ( 1964 ) The Unteleported Man ( 1964 ) The Ganymede Takeover ( 1965 ) Counter-Clock World ( 1965 ) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( 1966 ) Nick and the Glimmung ( 1966 ) Now Wait for Last Year ( 1966 ) Ubik ( 1966 ) Galactic Pot - Healer ( 1968 ) A Maze of Death ( 1968 ) Our Friends from Frolix 8 ( 1969 ) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said ( 1974 ) Deus Irae ( 1976 ) Radio Free Albemuth ( 1976 ; published 1985 ) A Scanner Darkly ( 1977 ) VALIS ( 1981 ) The Divine Invasion ( 1981 ) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ( 1982 ) The Owl in Daylight ( unfinished ) Collections A Handful of Darkness ( 1955 ) The Variable Man ( 1956 ) The Preserving Machine ( 1969 ) The Book of Philip K. Dick ( 1973 ) The Best of Philip K. Dick ( 1977 ) The Golden Man ( 1980 ) Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities ( 1984 ) I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon ( 1985 ) The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick ( 1987 ) Beyond Lies the Wub ( 1988 ) The Dark Haired Girl ( 1989 ) The Father - Thing ( 1989 ) Second Variety ( 1989 ) The Days of Perky Pat ( 1990 ) The Little Black Box ( 1990 ) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford ( 1990 ) We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ( 1990 ) The Minority Report ( 1991 ) Second Variety ( 1991 ) The Eye of the Sibyl ( 1992 ) The Philip K. Dick Reader ( 1997 ) Minority Report ( 2002 ) Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick ( 2002 ) Paycheck ( 2004 ) Vintage PKD ( 2006 ) The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick ( 2011 ) Short stories `` Beyond Lies the Wub '' ( 1952 ) `` The Gun '' ( 1952 ) `` The Skull '' ( 1952 ) `` The Little Movement '' ( 1952 ) `` The Defenders '' ( 1953 ) `` Mr. Spaceship '' ( 1953 ) `` Piper in the Woods '' ( 1953 ) `` Roog '' ( 1953 ) `` The Infinites '' ( 1953 ) `` Second Variety '' ( 1953 ) `` Colony '' ( 1953 ) `` The Cookie Lady '' ( 1953 ) `` Impostor '' ( 1953 ) `` Paycheck '' ( 1953 ) `` The Preserving Machine '' ( 1953 ) `` Expendable '' ( 1953 ) `` The Indefatigable Frog '' ( 1953 ) `` The Commuter '' ( 1953 ) `` Out in the Garden '' ( 1953 ) `` The Great C '' ( 1953 ) `` The King of the Elves '' ( 1953 ) `` The Trouble with Bubbles '' ( 1953 ) `` The Variable Man '' ( 1953 ) `` The Impossible Planet '' ( 1953 ) `` Planet for Transients '' ( 1953 ) `` The Builder '' ( 1953 ) `` Tony and the Beetles '' ( 1953 ) `` The Hanging Stranger '' ( 1953 ) `` Prize Ship '' ( 1954 ) `` Beyond the Door '' ( 1954 ) `` The Crystal Crypt '' ( 1954 ) `` The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford '' ( 1954 ) `` The Golden Man '' ( 1954 ) `` Sales Pitch '' ( 1954 ) `` Breakfast at Twilight '' ( 1954 ) `` The Crawlers '' ( 1954 ) `` Exhibit Piece '' ( 1954 ) `` Adjustment Team '' ( 1954 ) `` Shell Game '' ( 1954 ) `` Meddler '' ( 1954 ) `` A World of Talent '' ( 1954 ) `` The Last of the Masters '' ( 1954 ) `` Upon the Dull Earth '' ( 1954 ) `` The Father - thing '' ( 1954 ) `` Strange Eden '' ( 1954 ) `` The Turning Wheel '' ( 1954 ) `` The Hood Maker '' ( 1954 ) `` Foster, You 're Dead ! '' ( 1955 ) `` Human Is '' ( 1955 ) `` War Veteran '' ( 1955 ) `` Captive Market '' ( 1955 ) `` Nanny '' ( 1955 ) `` The Chromium Fence '' ( 1955 ) `` Service Call '' ( 1955 ) `` The Mold of Yancy '' ( 1955 ) `` Autofac '' ( 1955 ) `` Psi - man Heal My Child ! '' ( 1955 ) `` The Minority Report '' ( 1956 ) `` Pay for the Printer '' ( 1956 ) `` A Glass of Darkness '' ( 1956 ) `` The Unreconstructed M '' ( 1957 ) `` Null - O '' ( 1958 ) `` Explorers We '' ( 1959 ) `` Recall Mechanism '' ( 1959 ) `` Fair Game '' ( 1959 ) `` War Game '' ( 1959 ) `` All We Marsmen '' ( 1963 ) `` What 'll We Do with Ragland Park ? '' ( 1963 ) `` The Days of Perky Pat '' ( 1963 ) `` If There Were No Benny Cemoli '' ( 1963 ) `` Waterspider '' ( 1964 ) `` Novelty Act '' ( 1964 ) `` Oh, to Be a Blobel ! '' ( 1964 ) `` The War with the Fnools '' ( 1964 ) `` What the Dead Men Say '' ( 1964 ) `` Orpheus with Clay Feet '' ( 1964 ) `` Cantata 140 '' ( 1964 ) `` The Unteleported Man '' ( 1964 ) `` Retreat Syndrome '' ( 1965 ) `` Project Plowshare ( later `` The Zap Gun '' ) '' ( 1965 ) `` We Can Remember It for You Wholesale '' ( 1966 ) `` Faith of Our Fathers '' ( 1967 ) `` Not by Its Cover '' ( 1968 ) `` The Electric Ant '' ( 1969 ) `` A. Lincoln, Simulacrum '' ( 1969 ) `` The Pre-persons '' ( 1974 ) `` A Little Something for Us Tempunauts '' ( 1974 ) `` The Exit Door Leads In '' ( 1979 ) `` Rautavaara 's Case '' ( 1980 ) `` I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon '' ( 1980 ) `` The Eye of the Sibyl '' ( 1987 ) `` Stability '' ( 1987 ) Adaptations Films Blade Runner ( 1982 ) Total Recall ( 1990 ) Confessions d'un Barjo ( 1992 ) Screamers ( 1995 ) Impostor ( 2002 ) Minority Report ( 2002 ) Paycheck ( 2003 ) A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 ) Next ( 2007 ) Screamers : The Hunting ( 2009 ) Radio Free Albemuth ( 2010 ) The Adjustment Bureau ( 2011 ) Total Recall ( 2012 ) 2036 : Nexus Dawn ( 2017 ) 2048 : Nowhere to Run ( 2017 ) Blade Runner Black Out 2022 ( 2017 ) Blade Runner 2049 ( 2017 ) TV series Total Recall 2070 ( 1999 ) The Man in the High Castle ( 2015 -- present ) Minority Report ( 2015 ) Philip K. Dick 's Electric Dreams ( 2017 ) Related Philip K. Dick Award Blade Runner Adaptation of a work by Philip K. 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Question: when was do androids dream of electric sheep written
Answer: 1968