jack

It's a short story, rather than a book, and more weird but less interesting than the film. One of the film's strengths is the way it connects its future to our present, whereas the story (like a lot of sf of that era) doesn't really. The film has a much more convincing picture of the ways in which the artificial animals are used. The main character in the story is a typically Dickian whiny introspective nobody; much more irritating than the film.