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Review: Amazon's new anthology series 'Electric Dreams' deftly examines familiar sci-fi ground

If you have burned through the latest season of Netflix's hot sci-fi anthology "Black Mirror" and are looking for more glossily rendered stories of other worlds to disturb your life, Amazon has got a series for you. "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" - you may note in the title a reference to Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," the basis for "Blade Runner" - adapts 10 stories from a writer already much adapted. (The films "Minority Report," "Total

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