Do androids dream of electric sheep. Philip K Dick.

According to I.Halmgren, ”science fictional worlds” “the distinctive feature of science fiction is in its generic license to create worlds that are other than the world we know.” This statement is partly true for Phillip K Dick’s novel Do androids dream of electric sheep?. However, the genre of science fiction is better described by the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, “Prose fiction that explores the probable outcomes of some improbable or impossible transformations of the basic human (or intelligent nonhuman) condition.”(Baldick230) This essay will argue that Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep?, fits into that criteria perfectly because, although there are some new things that place the novel in the science fiction category, the world created by Dick is basically the world that we inhabit.

The nova, which are the new things that are different about the world of Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep, are that it is set in the future in a decaying post-nuclear ...