Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

While the book is the inspiration for Ridley Scott's Sci Fi Classic, Blade Runner, it has a clear life of its own. The book is a very interesting meditation on empathy and humanity and what constitutes "real" and "artificial". While this last theme is well worn in the genre, especially in the works of the Cyberpunk authors of the eighties and nineties, Philip K. Dick's offering is worthy of the attention it has deserved.