The Uncanniness and the Othering of the ‘Androids’ and the ‘Clones’ in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Abstract

The article gives an explanation of the definition of ‘the Other’ and tries to explore how the technological Others namely the Androids and the Clones in Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go, are treated as ‘the Other’ using the Theory of the Uncanny.