Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? vs The Time Machine: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Open_syllabus_project, Science Fiction, Fiction
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.”
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the…
The Time Machine
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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been…
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The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Time Machine is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
- The Time Machine has the widest readership — 579364 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | The Time Machine | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (4651) | 3.9 (579364) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (2185) | 3.8 (1493) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (41) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1130) | 4.5 (1863) |
| LiveLib | — | 4.3 (5) |
Reception
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | The Time Machine | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 4651 | 579364 |
| Editions | 90 | 1146 |
| Citations | — | 34 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 5341 | 406157 |
| Reading it now | 435 | 20904 |
| Written reviews | 348 | 20618 |
| Wikipedia attention | 53691 | 12134 |
| Pages | 271 | 119 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or The Time Machine?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.1/5, The Time Machine 3.9/5).
Which is shorter to read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or The Time Machine?
The Time Machine is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: The Time Machine (119 pages, ≈ 2 h 12 m); Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (271 pages, ≈ 5 h 01 m).
Which is harder to read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or The Time Machine?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Moderate; The Time Machine: Challenging.
Have both books been made into films?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: 5 film adaptations; The Time Machine: no film adaptation on record.