The book made me think, all the way through, and the ending was especially thought provoking and utterly, fantastically profound. It’s a classic, not only in creativity and style, but also in serious literary heft. Coolness bleeds off every page.įurthermore, this is a fabulous novel not just in coolness, but in many other ways. When trying to encapsulate such a cool story, in just a few titular words, the coolness must be somehow retained.Īnd Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is nothing if not cool.
I DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP MOVIE
Not that it has anything to do with the movie or book.īut there’s something to be said for coolness. Why is it called Blade Runner?Īccording to a Vulture article titled Digging Into the Odd History of Blade Runner ’s Title, the answer is basically that it sounds cool. This story gets crazier still, because a movie was made from the book. Whew! Electric Shepherd would have been simpler! But, I have to concede, not as cool. It’s a long title, and it requires a long explanation. This is a long train of thought to unpack, but I think I got there. So the title is asking us, do androids wish for an electric sheep?Įvidently that’s why they try to impersonate real humans, who have electric sheep. In the novel, the protagonist wishes for a real, nonelectric sheep. This clearly uses another definition of “dream”: to aspire to something to wish for something. Evidently that’s why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here.” However, this doesn’t quite make sense in the question posed in the title, because it refers to dreaming of the sheep while sleeping, not before sleeping.īut does it really refer to sleeping? Consider the following passage from the novel: Implied in the title is also the witty idea of counting sheep, a popular way of falling asleep. In the book (as I explained in this blog post), androids are fake humans with machine parts so sophisticated that they are all but indistinguishable from real humans. The idea of electric is also retained, not only in the sheep, but in the idea of an android. So, back to the original question: why is it called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Clearly, the reference to sheep is retained. While never in the book is he referred to as an “electric shepherd,” that’s basically what he is, even if he is a shepherd to only one electric animal.īut this title was apparently deemed too awkward and dorky sounding for such a cool, fast-paced book. The protagonist is actually the proud owner of an electric sheep. This title, while awkward and dorky sounding, gels much better with the content of the book. The book’s original, working title was Electric Shepherd. And so, the question of the hour is, why is it called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Why Is It Called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
What’s more, there are few clues within the book itself as to why it’s titled as it is. It’s quite long for a book title, and it ends with a question mark. The famous 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K.
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