![]() ![]() John Isidore is a parallel story that interweaves itself with Rick Deckard's story. After trying to bribe him with expensive animals, Rick leaves the Rosen Association to continue his mission of finding and killing the Nexus-6 androids, satisfied that they would not be able to pass the test and that he would not accidentally kill a human. Rick tries once again, and discovers that they had again been trying to trick him and that Rachael was in fact an android. The Rosen Association was concerned, chiefly, with their ability to continue to manufacture androids. Rachael does not pass the test, but Eldon tells Rick that it had been a trick and that she was really human. If someone passes the test, they are human. He begins to administer a test called the Voigt-Kampff test which tests for true empathy by asking a series of questions that are supposed to illicit empathetic responses. While there, Rick meets Rachael Rosen and her uncle Eldon. To learn about the Nexus-6, Rick travels to Seattle to visit the Rosen Association, the company that makes the Nexus-6. Rick then becomes the department's chief bounty hunter and becomes responsible for finding and retiring the remaining Nexus-6's. Upon arriving at work one day, Rick finds that his fellow bounty hunter, Dave Holden, had been seriously injured in an encounter with a new kind of android, the Nexus-6. Rick reflects that by owning an animal, human beings are able to show the one true emotion that belongs to them alone: empathy. He longs to own a real animal but in order to afford one he knows he must retire a great many androids in order to collect the $1000 bounty. Rick owns a sheep, but it is an electric sheep, a secret he keeps to himself. The point of Mercerism is to bring all humanity together in a show of empathy towards this man being persecuted. Iran is a devout follower of Mercerism, a kind of religion in which individuals fuse with a man named Mercer who is slowly climbing a hill towards his death. Iran is more in touch with the decay of the world around her and willfully sinks into depressions and sadness even though they own a Penfield mood organ that could dial up new emotions for her. ![]() ![]() Rick is quite self-centered and dreams of one day owning a very expensive animal like his neighbor's horse. His job is to "retire" androids who have escaped to earth from Mars. Rick is a bounty hunter working with the San Francisco police department. Rick Deckard wakes with his wife Iran in their apartment. All humans are expected to own and keep animals and many of the animals had become quite expensive. The radioactive dust had killed many forms of life and in the society that remained, life had become extremely important and valuable. Most of earth's residents had relocated to a new colony on Mars and the government actively encouraged more people to do so. The world has been completely altered by World War Terminus and the nuclear destruction that caused a radioactive dust to descend over the entire world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep begins in the bleak landscape of San Francisco in 2021 (earlier editions list the year as 1992). ![]()
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