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android-human-blurring

The suggestion that a Nexus-6 android like Rachel Rosen could aid in capturing other androids, highlighting blurred lines between humans and androids.

1 chapter across 1 book

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)Philip K. Dick

Chapter 12

Rick Deckard returns early from Seattle and prepares to hunt the Nexus-6 android Polokov, who has disguised himself as a scavenger but has disappeared from his apartment. Deckard is instructed to work with a Soviet observer, Sandor Kadalyi, who arrives to assist with the hunt. Meanwhile, Rachel Rosen from the Rosen Association offers Deckard help, suggesting a Nexus-6 android could better approach the escaped models, but Deckard declines.