Without giving too much away, I want to talk about three of my favorite characters. First being the main character, Rick Deckard. I really enjoyed this character and internal dialogue as he explored his own humanity. I really bonded with this character as a grew to understand his own internal struggle.
Second would be Roy Baty, the leader of the rogue androids on earth. His views on life and his own internal struggle gave me some serious Westworld vibes. I have found with a lot of novels about artificial intelligence, you don’t always get to hear their side of the story so I was delighted to find out that I did get to hear more from him.
Lastly would be John Isidore. He, like Deckard, is another human living in San Francisco but his character is quite a bit different from Deckard. Most humans in novels and in cinema tend to look unfavorably towards artificial intelligence. He has a lot more empathy than a lot of characters I have run into in these types of novels. His viewpoints on life on the dystopian Earth and views on life I found to be fascinating.
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Gwen, I LOVED this review. It’s so thoughtful, and it opens the discussion for a philosophical conversation on what it means to be “human”, among other subjects. Like you, I enjoy endings that are ambiguous or open-ended. They really push the reader to imagine the possibilities of what has unfolded. I think Dick does this well. I agree it would have been a more enriched experience if the story explored the outer worlds or, the very least, Dick left behind world-building details to shed light on those unexplored areas of the story.