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Book cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. DickBlade Runner, book 1

Characters in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

11 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Rick Deckard

    A bounty hunter for the San Francisco police department, tasked with "retiring" escaped Nexus-6 androids passing as human.

Antagonists

  • Roy Baty

    The leader of the six escaped Nexus-6 androids that Deckard is assigned to hunt down in San Francisco.

Supporting characters

  • John Isidore

    A radiation-damaged "chickenhead" who lives alone and befriends the escaped androids hiding in his apartment building.

  • Rachael Rosen

    A Nexus-6 android who works for the Rosen Association and forms a complicated relationship with Deckard over the course of his investigation.

  • Phil Resch

    A bounty hunter at the Mission Street police station who works with Deckard while investigating an unfamiliar second precinct.

  • Irmgard Baty

    Roy Baty's wife and fellow escaped Nexus-6 android, sheltering with him in San Francisco.

  • Luba Luft

    An escaped Nexus-6 android working as an opera singer in San Francisco, one of the first Deckard is assigned to retire.

  • Iran Deckard

    Rick's wife, who spends much of her time regulating her emotions with the Penfield mood organ in their nearly empty apartment building.

  • Pris Stratton

    An escaped Nexus-6 android hiding out in the same abandoned apartment building as John Isidore.

  • Wilbur Mercer

    The founder of Mercerism, a religion that lets followers share a single, endlessly cyclical experience of suffering through an empathy box.

  • Inspector Garland

    A police inspector Deckard encounters at an unfamiliar second police station while investigating a case.