The theme presented in this book seems to be technology v. humans, and if androids should be legal. The constant struggle is to keep Earth android free. Earth kind of shies away from the technology of the androids, but still tries to keep up. For example the use of the mood organ plays a large part in the first chapter at least. Rick and his wife Iran have a fight over why she had set hers to be depressed for the day. Rick couldn't understand why she would ever want to be depressed. She tried to explain herself to him, saying that it made her feel more "human". It wasn't "normal" to be happy all the time, especially in the world they are living in. She still uses the mood organ to feel more regular emotions, but she gets angry at her husband for retiring the androids. Rick doesn't see them as humans but more as robots and has no problem with killing them. His wife is unhappy with it yet spends the money he gets from catching them. Shes a typical hypocritical human.
On Mars and the other planets that they have begun to inhabit the lure is that they will get an android to work as a slave/servant. With more and more advancements in the technology the androids are becoming even more similar to humans, and the strangest part is the newer androids (Nexus 6) don't know that they are androids. I guess they just assume they are human because their creator tells them they are?
It always seems to go back to the question of human v. android.
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