Tuesday, April 14, 2009

'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

I've read quite a bit of sci-fi the last three or so years and no matter if it's good or bad, there are vast similarities between writers and stories.

Seems to me that styles, narrative, characters and the nuts and bolts of these stories tend to be very much the same. Or have the same feel to them. Which is odd because even though a lot of them were contemporaries, it's not like you can say Jack Kerouac and J.D. Salinger had the same style like you can the sci-fi writers. This is not, however, necessarily a bad thing.

This is a really great book and does what sci-fi should: Raise important ethical or moral quandaries through the metaphor of the future. Combining the two not only makes us question how we behave and treat others, but it makes us think about how we'll behave and treat others in the future and whether this is right or wrong.

More so, it makes you think about the past -- a very underrated venture.

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