Don’t Eat the Electric Sheep

    (Knee Deep, 2002-2005)
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With the briefest possible indicia, it’s tough to know if the Philip K. Dick estate knows about this book, but even if they don’t, they’d probably approve the story, if not the publishing. In Joe Flood’s dreamy tale, a replicant wakes up and goes wandering, is recaptured and reprogrammed, and wakes up in an asylum, leaving the reader unsure if it was all a dream, a hallucination, or if the asylum is the “test site” mentioned by the replicant’s programmers. The story only goes so far, but the telling sure is neat, particularly in the dream sequence. Then there’s a discernible style switch to a comedy tale about a girl, her armored duck, and their pet Frankenstein battling alligators in the sewers. TV dreams about the freedom or courage to test this kind of creativity.

— Brendan McGinley
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