Though Eldon Rosen, the company’s owner, tries to trick and then bribe Deckard, the bounty hunter learns that Rachael is an android. Deckard uses the Voigt-Kampff test (which measures empathy) to determine whether Rachael is an android. He meets Rachael Rosen, an apparent scion of the Rosen family. His wife Iran is depressed, and Deckard hopes that a real animal will help her as well as improve their status.ĭeckard visits the Rosen Association, the android manufacturer, to learn more about the advanced Nexus-6 models. Deckard accepts the dangerous assignment, hoping to earn enough bounty money to purchase a real animal to replace his electric sheep. After his colleague is wounded while attempting to kill a new, advanced form of android, he is given a list of six androids who killed their masters on Mars and escaped to Earth. ![]() Pet ownership allows humans to demonstrate their empathy for other life forms, and in this world, empathy is key as it distinguishes humans from androids. Live animals are extremely expensive, so many people make do with electrical, robotic equivalents. Due to the extinction of most animal species, pet ownership is a status symbol. These android servants occasionally rebel and try to flee to Earth, where bounty hunters are employed by the authorities to track down and kill them. Each colonist is given a personal android (a human-like robot) to ease their transition to their new life. Most animal species are extinct, and many people emigrate to off-world colonies. Nuclear fallout from this war covered Earth in radioactive dust. ![]() This guide was written using the eBook version of the 2008 Del Rey edition.ĭo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in a fictional version of San Francisco that has been ravaged by World War Terminus.
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