It is the Spanish version of the science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip Kindred Dick, 1968), set in a radiation-polluted dystopian world that has killed most animals, so they began producing artificial electrical versions, plus near-human androids, whose only noticeable difference from us is their lack of empathy. The story centers on android hunter Rick Deckard, who recognizes Andis using the Voigt-Kampff test and eliminates them when they are a threat to natural humans. The title of the novel refers to Deckard's obsession with buying a real sheep, as he has an electric one on his deck to fool his neighbors, because having an organic animal is a symbol of social status. At some point he begins to have doubts about the "humanity" of the androids he retires; And the novel leaves us the question as to whether they will also be able to dream of an electric sheep, as much as the hunter dreams of his real sheep, or whether they will perhaps have the dreams of an electric sheep, which is nothing more than a machine pretending to be alive. "He also thought about his need for a real animal. Once again the hatred inspired by his electric sheep was manifested, which he had to care for and attend to as if he were alive. "The tyranny of objects," he thought. She doesn't know that I exist. Like androids, he lacks the ability to appreciate the existence of another being. I had never thought before about the similarity between electric animals and andis. An electric animal was an inferior form, a robot of lesser quality. Or vice versa, an android was a highly developed version of the pseudo-animal. He found both ideas repugnant. » ( Philip K . Dick )
