Etienne Barillier Boeken

The inspiration for Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids and retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results

It was the delusion of a burned out case, caused by the death of a friend, a shattered marriage and too many drugs. It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS . And with that the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible but nothing seemed quite right. It was madness pure and simple. But what if it were true? VALIS , the disorienting and eerily funny centrepiece of Dick's final trilogy (which includes The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ), is part science fiction, part theological detective story - in which God plays both missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Front cover illustration by Chris Moore

Fées, Irlande, miniatures, inspiration, Majipoor, hyperespace, temporalités, télé-réalité, éthérisateur, fantômes malades, steampunk, infra-rouge, rocher, 666, matin du monde, Arcadie, imaginaire du Golfe, ivoire, Brassens, Mabuse, Calabi-Yau, masque mortuaire, paléozoïque...