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

9. Rachel
Pris Stratton
Dave Holden
Phil Resch
Deckard
J.R. Isidore
Iran

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