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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K DickRead about Number One on Collins' list.
Dick definitely belonged to the grimy school of apocalyptic dystopias. His noirish detective thriller shares many themes with the other less typically sci-fi books here: the fusion of the human with the technological and, as suggested by the title, the nature of consciousness in an artificial world.
--Marshal Zeringue