We Can Build You (Daw UQ1014)

About this book

Philip K Dicks visionary forerunner to the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that became the film Bladerunner tells the story of Louis Rosen and his love for the daughter of his business partner and the truth about where his life-like androids might end up! Making an animatronic replica of Abraham Lincoln has never been easier. Finding someone to buy it is the hard part. Louis Rosens firm the Frauenzimmer Piano Company builds electronic organs and upright pianos. Deciding to expand the business the firm get ambitious building exact reconstructions of famous personalities. Sam K. Barrows a lunar real estate tycoon wants to repopulate the moon with their creations and hes the only one rich enough to buy them. As the Lincoln model develops a fault and Rosen begins to fall for the daughter of his business partner things go from bad to worse and his mental health rapidly begins to deteriorate. We Can Build You bears striking similarities in Dicks later novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which was later transformed into Ridley Scotts extraordinary science fiction film classic Bladerunner.