SRS, I did read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? back in 1978 when I was studying Eng Lit and there was a sci-fi and fantasy subject unit. At that stage I hadn't seen the Bladerunner movie - which became one of my fave movies of all time.

I have tried a couple of times to re-read the book but it's difficult to keep it separated in my head from the movie, and the book moves very, very slowly through its plot, themes and character reveals. One day I might manage to read it again.

I used to read mostly sci-fi and fantasy back in the day, but then I drifted to other genres and now - very strangely for an ex-librarian/Eng Lit grad/book addict I tend to read very little and watch TV series a lot, mostly UK crime series. Very weird! Maybe I was abducted by aliens and I'm living on another planet and don't know it.

I was introduced to Ursula Le Guin's novels in the Eng Lit course too and she became one of my favourite authors. I wrote my Honours year final dissertation on two of her novels.