DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Literature 1982. Written by Philip K. Dick.

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#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	Aeroflot	BBB	Transportation	Airlines
	Aeroflot "Good idea," Bryant said, "except that Mr. Kadalyi is already here, his Aeroflot ship - as usual, he says - arrived early. Just a moment." An invisible conference. "He'll fly over and meet you where you are now," Bryant said, returning to the screen. "Meanwhile read up on Miss Luft."
2	Bay Area Scavengers Company	BBB	Maintenance Services	Waste Management
	Bay Area Scavengers Company "I just wouldn't regard it as financially fair." He had absolutely no intention of sharing his winnings with a thug from W.P.O. He studied the poop sheet on Polokov, it gave a description of the man - or rather the andy - and his current address and place of business: The Bay Area Scavengers Company with offices on Geary.
3	Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends	BBB	Television	TV Shows
	Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends "Turn off Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends? Tum off Amanda Werner and Oscar Scruggs? It's time to hear Buster's big sensational expose, which is finally almost arrived." She stooped to read the dial of her watch by the radio's light. "Very soon now. Did you already know about it? He's been talking about it, building up to it, for - "
4	The Buster Friendly Show	BBB	Radio	Radio Programs
	The Buster Friendly Show How did Buster Friendly find the time to tape both his aud and vid shows? Isidore wondered. And how did Amanda Werner find time to be a guest every other day, month after month, year after year? How did they keep talking? They never repeated themselves - not so far as he could determine.
5	Dave Holden	BBB	Services	Assassins and Mercenaries
	Dave Holden Android bounty hunter.
6	Derain Associates	BBB	Corporations	Robotics Companies
	Derain Associates On tile stage Luba Luft sang, and he found himself surprised at the quality of her voice, it rated with that of the best, even that of notables in his collection of historic tapes. The Rosen Associaion built her well, he had to admit. And again he perceived himself sub specie aeternitatis, the formdestroyer called forth by what he heard and saw here. Perhaps the better she functions, the better a singer she is, the more I am needed. If the androids had remained substandard, like the ancient q-40s made by Derain Associates - there would be no problem and no need of my skill. I wonder when I should do it, he asked himself. As soon as possible, probably. At the end of the rehearsal when she goes to her dressing room.
7	Dr. Costa	BBB	Healthcare	Doctors
	Dr. Costa "Just a moment and I'll check on that, sir." The screen temporarily blanked out. Time passed. Rick took a pinch of Dr. Johnson Snuff and shivered. Without the car's heater the temperature had begun to plunge. "Dr. Costa says that Mr. Holden is not receiving calls," the operator told him, reappearing. "This is police business," he said. He held his flat pack of ID up to the screen. "Just a moment." Again the operator vanished. Again Rick inhaled a pinch of Dr. Johnson Snuff, the menthol in it tasted foul, so early in the morning. He rolled down the car window and tossed the little yellow tin out into the rubble. "No, sir," the operator said, once more on his screen. "Dr. Costa does not feel Mr. Holden's condition will permit him to take any calls, no matter how urgent, for at least - "
8	Dr. Johnson Snuff	BBB	Tobacco	Tobacco Products
	Dr. Johnson Snuff Rick Decksrd's preferred snuff brand.
9	Empathy Box	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	Empathy Box Networked appliance that connects many anonymous people through shared warmth.
10	Happy Dog Pet Shop	BBB	Pets	Pet Stores
	Happy Dog Pet Shop Thinking about animals reminded him of the ostrich he had seen in the pet store. Temporarily he pushed away the specs on the Nexus-6 brain unit, took a pinch of Mrs. Siddons' No. 3 & 4 snuff and cogitated. Then he examined his watch, saw that he had time, he picked up his desk vidphone and said to Miss Marsten, "Get me the Happy Dog Pet Shop on Sutter Street."
11	Hovercar	BBB	Vehicles	Motor Vehicles
	Hovercar Flying automobile.
12	Infinity Key	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	Infinity Key They're now all frozen stiff, he said to himself as he shut off the transmitter. Everyone, human and andy alike, in the vicinity. No risk to me, all I have to do is walk in and laser him. Assuming, of course, that he's in his apartment, which isn't likely. Using an infinity key, which analyzed and opened all forms of locks known, he entered Polokov's apartment, laser beam in hand.
13	Mercerism	BBB	Religion	Religions
	Mercerism In Mercerism, an absolute evil plucked at the threadbare cloak of the tottering, ascending old man, but it was never clear who or what this evil presence was. A Mercerite sensed evil without understanding it. Put another way, a Mercerite was free to locate the nebulous presence of The Killers wherever he saw fit. For Rick Deckard an escaped humanoid robot, which had killed its master, which had been equipped with an intelligence greater than that of many human beings, which had no regard for animals, which possessed no ability to feel emphatic joy for another life form's success or grief at its defeat - that, for him, epitomized The Killers.
14	Nexus-6	BBB	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Nexus-6 "It must have been one of those new, extra-clever andys the Rosen Association is turning out," Miss Marsten said. "Did you read over the company's brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they're using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways." She lowered her voice. "You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me, it came through the switchboard exactly at nine."
15	Penfield Mood Organ	BBB	Technology Products	Audiovisual Devices
	Penfield Mood Organ At the Penfield mood organ, Iran Deckard sat with her right index finger touching the numbered dial. But she did not dial, she felt too listless and ill to want anything: a burden which closed off the future and any possibilities which it might once have contained. If Rick were here, she thought, he'd get me to dial 3 and that way I'd find myself wanting to dial something important, ebullient joy or if not that then possibly an 888, the desire to watch TV no matter what's on it. I wonder what is on it, she thought. And then she wondered again where Rick had gone. He may be coming back and on the other hand he may not be, she said to herself, and felt her bones within her shrink with age.
16	Q-40	BBB	Technology Products	Robot Models
	Q-40 On tile stage Luba Luft sang, and he found himself surprised at the quality of her voice, it rated with that of the best, even that of notables in his collection of historic tapes. The Rosen Associaion built her well, he had to admit. And again he perceived himself sub specie aeternitatis, the formdestroyer called forth by what he heard and saw here. Perhaps the better she functions, the better a singer she is, the more I am needed. If the androids had remained substandard, like the ancient q-40s made by Derain Associates - there would be no problem and no need of my skill. I wonder when I should do it, he asked himself. As soon as possible, probably. At the end of the rehearsal when she goes to her dressing room.
17	Rick Decker	BBB	Services	Assassins and Mercenaries
	Rick Decker Android bounty hunter.
18	The Rosen Association	BBB	Corporations	Companies
	The Rosen Association "It must have been one of those new, extra-clever andys the Rosen Association is turning out," Miss Marsten said. "Did you read over the company's brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they're using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways." She lowered her voice. "You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me, it came through the switchboard exactly at nine."
19	Sidney's Animal & Fowl	BBB	Periodicals	Magazines
	Sidney's Animal & Fowl Rick said quietly, "I don't want a domestic pet. I want what I originally had, a large animal. A sheep or if I can get the money a cow or a steer or what you have - a horse." The bounty from retiring five andys would do it, he realized. A thousand dollars apiece, over and above my salary. Then somewhere I could find, from someone, what I want. Even if the listing in Sidney's Animal & Fowl is in italics. Five thousand dollars - but, he thought, the five andys first have to make their way to Earth from one of the colony planets, I can't control that, I can't make five of them come here, and even if I could there are other bounty hunters with other police agencies throughout the world. The andys would specifically have to take up residence in Northern California, and the senior bounty hunter in this area, Dave Holden, would have to die or retire.
20	Silenizine	BBB	Drugs	Medicine
	Silenizine "We came back," Pris said, "because nobody should have to live there. It wasn't conceived for habitation, at least not within the last billion years. It's so old. You feel it in the stones, the terrible old age. Anyhow, at first I got drugs from Roy, I lived for that new synthetic pain-killer, that silenizine. And then I met Horst Hartman, who at that time ran a stamp store, rare postage stamps, there's so much time on your hands that you've got to have a hobby, something you can pore over endlessly. And Horst got me interested in pre-colonial fiction."
21	Specific No. 1 Snuff	BBB	Tobacco	Tobacco Products
	Specific No. 1 Snuff After parking the departments speedy beefed-up hovercar on the roof of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Lombard Street, bounty hunter Rick Deckard, briefcase in hand, descended to Harry Bryant's office. "You're back awfully soon," his superior said, leaning back in his chair and taking a pinch of Specific No. 1 snuff.
22	Van Ness Pet Hospital	BBB	Pets	Pet Services
	Van Ness Pet Hospital To himself John Isidore thought acidly, And it's gone away for me, too, without my having to emigrate. He had been a special now for over a year, and not merely in regard to the distorted genes which he carried. Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead. Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. However, despite this, he survived. He had his job, driving a pickup and delivery truck for a false-animal repair firm, the Van Ness Pet Hospital and his gloomy, gothic boss Hannibal Sloat accepted him as human and this he appreciated. Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning.
23	Vidphone	BBB	Technology Products	Communication Devices
	Vidphone Video phone.
24	Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test	BBB	Technology Products	Electronics
	Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test The Nexus-6 android types, Rick reflected, surpassed several classes of human specials in terms of intelligence. In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major - but inferior - segment of mankind. For better or worse. The servant had in some cases become more adroit than its master. But new scales of achievement, for example the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test, had emerged as criteria by which to judge. An android, no matter how gifted as to pure intellectual capacity, could make no sense out of the fusion which took place routinely among the followers of Mercerism - an experience which he, and virtually everyone else, including subnormal chickenheads, managed with no difficulty.
25	W.P.O.	BBB	Legal Aid	Police Departments
	W.P.O. World Police Organization.
26	Wheelright & Carpenter	BBB	Pets	Pet Services
	Wheelright & Carpenter Deftly, he ran his fingers along the pseudo bony spine. The cables should be about here. Damn expert workmanship, so absolutely perfect an imitation. Cables not apparent even under close scrutiny. Must be a Wheelright & Carpenter product - they cost more, but look what good work they do.
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
27	The Hall of Justice	Map	Structures	Halls
	The Hall of Justice San Francisco police headquarters.
28	New America	Map	Geographic Areas	Territories
	New America Colony on Mars.
29	New New York	Map	Urban Areas	Cities
	New New York City on Mars.
30	War Memorial Opera House	Map	Structures	Event Venues
	War Memorial Opera House Snapping on his hovercar's engine he whisked nippity-nip up into the sky, heading toward the old War Memorial Opera House, where, according to Dive Holden's notes, he would find Luba Luft this time of the day.
OTHER
31	Blade Runner	Other	Themes	Diff|rent Strokes
	#0c6067 #777777 #3ea7b0
32	Boneli Reflex-Arc Test	Other	Miscellaneous	Evaluations
	Boneli Reflex-Arc Test "Do you know of the Boneli Reflex-Arc Test?" he asked. "We're working on the spinal ganglia, too. Someday the Boneli test will fade into yesterday's hoary shroud of spiritual oblivion." She smiled innocuously - at variance with her words. At this point he could not discern her degree of seriousness. A topic of worldshaking importance, yet dealt with facetiously, an android trait, possibly, he thought. No emotional awareness, no feeling-sense of the actual meaning of what she said. Only the hollow, formal, intellectual definitions of the separate terms.
33	Untitled	Other	Themes	Sin City
	#ad2b2b #ca454a #f7545b

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