Timeline for In Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", is Deckard a replicant?

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Oct 19, 2023 at 15:13	comment	added	Andres F.		While the novel has a degree of ambiguity, it's not about Deckard. It's about a fellow android hunter (I forget his name) who questions his humanity and believes he's an android due to his lack of emotions. Deckard, however, is empathetic and can use mercerism's "empathy boxes", which androids cannot -- he's definitely human in the novel. The movie better introduces this ambiguity, but it's not in the novel.
S May 11, 2018 at 20:55	history	suggested	Matthew Read	CC BY-SA 4.0	small grammar fixes
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Oct 6, 2016 at 23:34	comment	added	jcollum		"Bladerunner 2" -- that's a thing??! Oy. But they announced Bladerunner 2049 recently so I guess it was gonna happen either way.
May 3, 2012 at 23:44	comment	added	Mark Booth		I don't remember the question being answered in Bladerunner 2 but then it was so bad I've mostly blocked out the memory of it. I certainly couldn't stomach the idea of reading any further.
Aug 11, 2011 at 4:19	comment	added	TML		"If we're only talking about Dick's novel though, I don't believe there is an answer. It's deliberately ambiguous to illustrate the lack of disticintion between android and Human." - my question very much was about Dick's novel alone, so I think this is a great answer. As for you being a replicant, I have a few more questions that will help us determine that... ;)
Aug 11, 2011 at 4:15	history	answered	user603	CC BY-SA 3.0