ron hubbard started writing science fiction and the entire world view, theology etc.oved away from fiction and became a church but this is where it started. it participated in a change in american society, the founding of dianetics as a religion or theology or whatever you want to call it. this is one that we keep in the vault because it is very much after the collectors. this is phillips andrews dream. this book had a huge impact in bringing ideas of androids, cloning, artificial intelligence to the attention of a whole lot of people who were not particularly science-fiction readers. it wasn't new to talk about this or artificial intelligence in science fiction in 1968, but when blade runner was made, that conversation got a kind of huge imaginative exposure. the story of do androids dream of electric sheep is not exactly the story of blade runner, but the phones are there. what happens, you know, with a shorter lifespan, what if theree is an android who doesn't know they are? what is being a person, what is intelligence, what is consciousness and can consciousness b