2. Life
He was born in Chicago in December 1928
Six weeks after birth death of Jane (his twin
sister)
He was awarded to Dorothy
He attended the University of California
He got married five times
His first novel "Solar Lottery" appeared in 1955
1950s: series of conventional novels
He died in 1982
3. Paranormal experiences and mental
health issues
Effects of sodium pentothal sun glinted of golden necklace
Beam spread wisdom and clairvoyance
Strange hallucinations geometric patterns, pictures of Jesus and ancient
Rome
Two parallel lives
4. Themes
War
Real-Unreal
Illusion
Alternate Universes
Drug
No heroes but heroics
What constitutes the authentic
human being?
Mental illness
5. Main Works
An alternative way of the history:
the nazi-fascist world
Reality divided in parts:
the power of psychics
Paranoia and dissociation
In multiple realites
6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Setting
Androids
Plot
Adaptations: film
7. Setting: a post apocalyptic future
World war Terminus (1992): radioactive
fallout and radiation poisoning
San Francisco Bay Area:
Radioactive dust
Oregon desert
Off world colonies: Mars (Proxima)
8. Androids
Used only in off-world
colonies as servants
Indistinguishable for
humans
They’re not empathetic
Empathy and Boneli Test
Bone marrow sample
10. Do androids dream of electric
sheep comparison to blade runner
Dissimilarity the Penfield
mood organ and
Deckard’s wife, Iran
the book places a lot
more emphasis on
animals
Dissimilarity Deckard’s
motivation in the novel
for retiring the androids
San Francisco-Los
Angeles
Dick’s androids were
emotionless beings-
Ridley Scott’s replicants
were superhuman