Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

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Philip K. Dick’s essay “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” from American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (1968) is a story about a future life with only androids and electric animals. The author describes a story that Sidney is so surprise that he sees a raccoon, which he only has seen “from 3-D films”, falls asleep near the pen. Then, a girl, Rachael Rosen, introduces the raccoon to him and shows more animals to him. Sidney feels so shock that he thinks these animals are all died out. He doesn’t believe the girl and thinks all of these are “artificial”. However, the girl tells him that they are wild. She explains that they have naturalists who “working up in Canada” keep real animals. These real animals take Sidney back