Posted on Mon 25 February 2013

One of the best books I've read recently. It poses some interesting questions (If an android thinks he is human, and only a very obscure test can determine the difference between a human and an android, what does it matter? How do you know you yourself are not an android?) and is a very quick read.

Then there's the 'religion' of Mercerism, where an old man continuously struggles up a mountain (reminiscent of Sisyphus), only to be tormented by thrown rocks. People join him in his suffering with an 'empathy box', an experience barred to androids.

I'm a little bit sad that I've already finished the book, but luckily Philip K. Dick wrote plenty more.

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