50 Fun Facts About Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Blade Runner moved the action to Los Angeles, but in which city is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? set?

San Francisco is where Rick Deckard hunts androids for the police, in a city half emptied by fallout and emigration. The film swapped it for a dystopian Los Angeles.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does Rick Deckard use to tell androids from humans by their empathy?

The Voigt-Kampff test measures involuntary reactions to questions, most of them about harm to animals. An android's flinch arrives a fraction of a second too late.

Who played bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Harrison Ford won the part on the strength of Star Wars and warm praise from Steven Spielberg. Decades later he came back as Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which live animal does Rick Deckard buy with his bounty for three androids?

A goat of the Nubian breed swallows his entire $3,000 bounty as a mere down payment, leaving him with heavy monthly instalments.

Which word did Blade Runner invent to replace the androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Replicants grew out of a chat between screenwriter David Peoples and his daughter, a biochemist, who brought up the way cells go about replicating.

Which euphemism do bounty hunters in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? use for killing an android?

Retire is the police term, and each android Rick Deckard removes this way earns him a bounty of $1,000.

The fugitive Nexus-6 androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? have escaped to Earth from which colony?

Mars is sold to emigrants as a fresh start with a free android servant, yet the runaways describe it as old, desolate and unfit to live on.

Which animal, thought extinct, does Rick Deckard find in the desert at the end of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A toad is among the creatures most sacred to the prophet Mercer, so Deckard carries it home in triumph. His wife then finds a small control panel in its belly.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which mood does Iran Deckard deliberately schedule on her mood organ?

Depression is the setting Iran dials on purpose, because she thinks it unhealthy to feel nothing about the emptiness of a ruined Earth.

Which director left a slow-moving Dune production and turned Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner?

Ridley Scott filmed a script by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Philip K. Dick died before the release but was pleased by a reel of effects footage screened for him.

Which Nexus-6 android planned the group's escape in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? while posing as a pharmacist?

Roy Baty also hoped that mind-altering drugs could give androids something like the shared religious experience humans enjoy. Blade Runner gave his surname a second T.

Which rare bird does the Rosen Association offer Deckard as a bribe in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

An owl makes a priceless bribe because owls were the first creatures to die in the fallout. Eldon Rosen later admits that the bird on offer is a machine.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which rare creature do the androids mutilate to test how many legs it needs?

A spider found by John Isidore loses its legs one by one to a pair of scissors, because the androids suspect it could manage just as well on four.

Which fugitive in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the same android model as Rachael Rosen and looks identical?

Pris Stratton runs at Deckard on the stairs with her arms open, and only at the last second does he grasp that she is not Rachael.

Which talk-show host in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? goes on air to denounce Mercerism as a fraud?

Buster Friendly is somehow on television and radio at once for most of every day, and the androids hiding with Isidore reveal that he is one of them.

How does Rachael Rosen destroy the prized animal Rick Deckard has just bought in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Rachael pushes it off the roof of Deckard's own building while he is away hunting, only hours after she has spent the night with him.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what is Wilbur Mercer forever doing in the visions his followers share?

Climbing a hill under a hail of thrown rocks is Mercer's endless ordeal. Believers gripping an empathy box feel every stone and can come away with real wounds.

The Rosen Association of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became which android-building company in Blade Runner?

Tyrell Corporation took the place of the family-run Rosen firm, and its founder Eldon Tyrell kept the first name of the novel's Eldon Rosen.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does J. R. Isidore call the useless junk that seems to multiply by itself?

Kipple, in Isidore's telling, always drives out whatever is not kipple, so an empty apartment slowly fills with rubbish unless somebody keeps fighting it.

Which animal owned by his neighbor Bill Barbour does Rick Deckard envy in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A horse, a pregnant Percheron mare, is Barbour's pride, and he turns down Deckard's offer to buy the foal on a payment plan.

Which fellow bounty hunter in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? fears he is an android until a test clears him?

Phil Resch turns out to be human, which troubles Deckard more than the opposite result would have, because Resch plainly enjoys killing.

Which police inspector in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? finds his own name on Deckard's list of targets?

Garland runs a sham police station staffed by androids, hidden in plain sight in the city. Once exposed he pulls a laser on Deckard and is shot dead.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the android Polokov ambushes Rick Deckard while disguised as what?

A Soviet policeman calling himself Kadalyi joins Deckard in his hovercar as an observer, and an odd-looking laser gives him away just before the two men struggle.

Which Mozart opera is the android Luba Luft performing when Deckard finds her in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Magic Flute is a favourite of Deckard's, so he sits and listens to Luft sing the part of Pamina before he goes backstage to test her.

Whose paintings is Luba Luft viewing when bounty hunters catch her in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Edvard Munch's exhibition holds Luft's attention, and she asks Deckard for a print of Puberty. He buys her the whole book of reproductions with his own money.

Whose shooting by a Nexus-6 hands Rick Deckard the case in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dave Holden, the department's top bounty hunter, had already dealt with two of the runaways when a laser left him in hospital with a spinal injury.

To which city does Rick Deckard fly to test the Rosen Association's own androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Seattle is home to the Rosen headquarters, where the family tries to discredit his empathy test by having him examine Rachael without saying what she is.

What name does Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? give the conflict that left Earth blanketed in radioactive dust?

World War Terminus was so ruinous that nobody in the novel can remember why it started or who, if anyone, won.

Which costly bird does Rick Deckard covet in a dealer's window in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

An ostrich newly arrived from a zoo in Cleveland carries a price of $29,000, and Deckard phones the dealer from his desk to haggle without success.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which sick pet does J. R. Isidore collect for repair, thinking it a machine?

A cat dies in the back of Isidore's truck before he reaches the shop, and his boss makes him break the news to its owner by videophone.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does Rick Deckard claim his briefcase is made of to expose Rachael Rosen?

Baby skin is the lie that settles it: Rachael does recoil, but a beat more slowly than any human would, and Eldon Rosen has to admit what she is.

Besides measuring empathy, which lab procedure can prove someone is an android in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bone marrow analysis cannot be forced on the living, so Rachael simply refuses when Deckard demands one. It later confirms that the dead Polokov was an android.

What official label bars the fallout-damaged J. R. Isidore from emigrating in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A special is someone whose genes the fallout has distorted. Isidore has also failed the minimum mental faculties test, which earns him the crueller street name chickenhead.

Which catalog does Rick Deckard consult for the price of every live animal in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Sidney's still prints an astronomical price for a raccoon although none can be bought, because the catalog simply lists what the last one sold for.

What does Rick Deckard wear outdoors to shield himself from radiation in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A lead codpiece is his daily armor against the dust, because police doctors examine him regularly and a contaminated man loses his place in normal society.

What killed Groucho, the real sheep Rick Deckard once owned in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Tetanus set in after the sheep stepped on a piece of wire left in its hay, and Deckard quietly bought a mechanical copy to save face with the neighbors.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a television exposé claims the prophet Wilbur Mercer is really what?

An old actor named Al Jarry, now a drunk, is said to have played the part on a Hollywood sound stage. Mercer himself admits it and says it changes nothing.

After his final hunt in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Deckard flies to a dead zone near which state's border?

Oregon marks the northern edge of a lifeless region where Deckard half expects to die. A thrown rock cuts his cheek there, just as it would in a vision of Mercer.

Which alternative-history novel won Philip K. Dick his only Hugo Award for Best Novel?

The Man in the High Castle ended years of meagre sales for Dick, and from 2015 it ran as a multi-season series on Amazon Prime Video.

Which Arnold Schwarzenegger film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, grew from a Philip K. Dick short story?

Total Recall grew from the story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, and it was filmed again in 2012 with Colin Farrell in the lead.

Which Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise was based on a Philip K. Dick short story of nearly the same name?

Minority Report began as a 1956 short story, and Fox later aired a television series that picked up after the events of the film.

Philip K. Dick died shortly before Blade Runner reached cinemas; what killed the author at the age of 53?

A stroke felled him at his home in Santa Ana, California, where he was found unconscious on the floor. A second stroke in hospital left him brain dead, and life support was withdrawn.

Whose death, six weeks after Philip K. Dick was born, left a phantom presence that recurs in his novels?

His twin sister Jane died in infancy, and after Dick's own death his ashes were buried beside her in a Colorado cemetery.

Philip K. Dick was the first science fiction writer admitted to which prestigious series of classic books?

The Library of America admitted him in 2007, a quarter of a century after his death and long after publishers had turned down his mainstream novels.

The Philip K. Dick Award goes each year to the best science fiction book first published in which format?

Paperback originals alone qualify for the prize, which novelist Thomas Disch founded and which has been given since 1983, the year after Dick died.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was a 1968 nominee for which major science fiction prize without winning it?

The Nebula Award for 1968 went instead to Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage, leaving the nomination as the novel's main honor from its own era.

Whose film treatment of Alan E. Nourse's novel The Bladerunner gave Blade Runner its title?

William S. Burroughs called his treatment Blade Runner (a movie). The phrase never appears in Philip K. Dick's novel, where Deckard is simply a bounty hunter.

Which friend of Philip K. Dick wrote three authorized sequel novels that continue Rick Deckard's story?

K. W. Jeter began with Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human in 1995, and his books try to reconcile the differences between the novel and the film.

John Isidore of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the loose model for which fast-aging Blade Runner character?

J.F. Sebastian has a whole building to himself and fills it with automata he builds for company, then takes in the fugitives much as Isidore does.

Which pet does a bounty hunter in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? cite as proof he cannot be an android?

A squirrel he feeds and loves is his whole argument, though Deckard answers that a few androids have managed to keep animals too.