Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Graphic Novel, vol. 6. 2011. 144p. ISBN 978-1-60886-640-3. 741.5 DIC on the library shelves.
Back at Isodore’s apartment, the remaining three Nexus-6 androids are moving in and settling to hear Buster Friendly’s big announcement. Isodore moves the television from Pris’s apartment to his own, and then returns to gather more clothes. That’s when he discovers a spider in the deserted hallway. In a world lacking insects and animal life, this discovery is awe-inspiring, and Isodore returns to the apartment and tells Pris of his discovery.
Intrigued, she takes the spider and begins to cut off some of its legs, to Isodore’s horror and chagrin. He realizes at last that androids do not have empathy. Meanwhile, Buster Friendly announces that the cult of Mercer, in which most humans believe, is entirely fake and is in fact a conspiracy fostered on humanity to control its pathetic existence.
Isodore rescues the spider after it has lost five of its eight legs, and brings it outside to the only patch of sickly vegetation he knows. He meets Rick Deckard there, who has just arrived to retire the androids. Rick enters the building and, despite Rachael Rosen’s prediction, he’s able to retire all three androids. But his life is saved by Mercer himself, who appears to him. Confused, Rick returns home to find that Rachael Rosen has killed his goat by dropping it from the roof.
He snaps and heads out to the desert, and much like Mercer, he begins to climb a mountain. When he is hurt by a rock, he returns to his vehicle, spots a toad, and brings it back home. For a while, he is finally happy, but then his wife discovers that the toad is not real. What is real, what isn’t? Deckard doesn’t know, but he manages to reach a modicum of exhausted peace.
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