Sunday, November 20, 2011

Ten of the best titles in the form of questions

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best titles in the form of questions.

One entry on the list:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

In a world after nuclear war, humans and animals are poisoned by fallout. Humans have made android animals to remind them of life on Earth before the cataclysm. Synthetic humans, lacking only the capacity for empathy, labour on Mars, but some escape and bounty hunter Rick Deckard (who is the owner of an electric sheep) is given the task of "retiring" them.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? also appears on Charlie Jane Anders and Michael Ann Dobbs's list of ten classic sci-fi books that were originally considered failures and Robert Collins's top ten list of dystopian novels.

--Marshal Zeringue