Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?  1963Philip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" // Sat. “Disastrous dead end” / Translation from English. - Kaliningrad: RIF “Russian West”, 1993-435 pp., illus. / Translation from English by V. Zhurakhovsky, illustrations by V. Pasichnik. After the nuclear war, the Earth turned into a scorched, dying desert. Almost all animals became extinct. Most people have long since moved to other colonized planets in the solar system. Those who were forced to stay eke out a miserable, dull existence in cities that are also falling into decay. One of these people is Rick Deckard, a professional android hunter. Rick is tasked with tracking down and destroying several fugitive androids who have arrived on Earth illegally. But during the hunt, he involuntarily has doubts. Rick wonders: is it humane to destroy androids?