Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 primary works • 5 total works
Book 1
Androids are on the loose on the streets of San Francisco. The world reels from World War Terminus. The animals have died off, and a new religion, Mercerism, holds society in its grasp. Visionary and prophetic author Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is brought to comics in a unique, full-text "graphic novelization" that combines Dick's text with Tony Parker's artwork. Available in six volumes, reprinting the complete story.
Book 2
Influential sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford. These hardcovers collect the ground-breaking maxi-series that takes the full text of Dick's novel as illustrated by acclaimed artist Tony Parker!
Book 3
--John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .
They even built humans.
Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from".
--Paul Williams
Rolling Stone
Book 5
(W) Philip K. Dick (A) Tony Parker
Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and "arguably Mr. Dick's best." BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted to the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking series experiment that the Village Voice named one of the "Best Comics and Graphic Novels." Collects issues #17-20.
