Like in Blade Runner, the plot focuses on Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter that chases down androids that have returned to Earth and try to live as humans... besides that just about everything else is different, so in reading this book it is best to just forget all about the movie and take the book for what it is. In the book Rick is assigned to kill six androids that are living in San Francisco. He's excited for the job because with the bounty he'll be able to replace his electric sheep with an actual living animal. Weirdly enough, owning live random animals is a pretty big status symbol and people believe that having animals, either electric or living are important for their emotional well-being.
Like all good science fiction, the book had some stuff that was kind of weird... like all the electric animals, the empathy boxes, and of course androids so life-like that you can't tell they're not human. But also the human emotion was still relatable... a good portion of the book discusses being able to feel empathy for someone or something even if it isn't really "alive". The only thing I'd say against it is that it could have dug a bit deeper into the moral question on whether or not the androids should be 'retired' and if they really do have a right to 'life' if they feel that they are living beings with emotions and free will. But then again, this isn't a philosophy book. I'll give it an A-.
