We Can Build You

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We Can Build You (ISBN 067975296X) is a 1972 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.

Plot

The main character and narrator of We Can Build You is Louis Rosen, a small businessman in a near, alternate future whose partner wants to begin production of simulacra, or androids, based on famous Civil War figures. Two prototypes, one of Edwin M. Stanton and one of Abraham Lincoln, are completed. The story revolves around the attempts of Rosen's company to sell the patents on the robots to Sam K. Barrows, an influential businessman.

As in many Dick novels, We Can Build You addresses the questions, "What is human?" and "What is normal?" The Stanton and Lincoln robots are portrayed as much more dynamic and caring than the actual humans who argue over them. In addition, the future Dick portrays is one in which schizophrenia and alienation from one's emotions have become endemic, and a government Federal Bureau of Mental Health has become increasingly powerful and important.

Rosen's love-interest is the daughter of his business partner, a borderline schizophrenic young woman named Pris.

Trivia

• The name of Rosen's love interest, Pris, was taken for one of the androids in the movie Blade Runner, which was primarily based on another of Dick's novels, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

External links

• [Philip K. Dick Trust: We Can Build You]

Books by Philip K. Dick

Gather Yourselves Together | Voices From the Street | Vulcan's Hammer | Dr. Futurity | The Cosmic Puppets | Solar Lottery | Mary and the Giant | The World Jones Made | Eye in the Sky | The Man Who Japed | A Time for George Stavros | Pilgrim on the Hill | The Broken Bubble | Puttering About in a Small Land | Nicholas and the Higs | Time Out of Joint | In Milton Lumky Territory | Confessions of a Crap Artist | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike | Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | The Man in the High Castle | We Can Build You | Martian Time-Slip | Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | The Game-Players of Titan | The Simulacra | The Crack in Space | Now Wait for Last Year | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Clans of the Alphane Moon | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The Zap Gun | The Penultimate Truth | Deus Irae | The Unteleported Man | The Ganymede Takeover | Counter-Clock World | Nick and the Glimmung | Ubik | Galactic Pot-Healer | A Maze of Death | Our Friends from Frolix 8 | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | A Scanner Darkly | Radio Free Albemuth | VALIS | The Divine Invasion | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

 

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