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BTW there is also a novel from the 80s called “blade runner”. Don’t read it: it’s really terrible. Also it has nothing at all to do with androids or anything.
by gumby 4y ago
BTW there is also a novel from the 80s called “blade runner”. Don’t read it: it’s really terrible.
Also it has nothing at all to do with androids or anything. IIRC it’s something to do with illegal surgery, or transplants perhaps, but I remember it being so terrible that I don’t even want to go find the book and see.
Whereas Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is subtle and divine — one of PKD’s best and always worth a reread.
- technothrasher 4y ago> Whereas Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is subtle and Devine It's also a relatively short read, but packed with so much more to explore than the movie dug into. I really wish Mercerism had been brought into the film. It's such an insightful critique of religion and society, and quite prophetic for time in which the story was written.
- gumby 4y agoAnd the mood organ (and Dekard’s wife’s abuse of same), also so prophetic
- maxfurman 4y agoTechnically the film is named after this novel; they optioned the title and then slapped it on their Do Androids Dream script because it sounded better. You're pretty close in your plot summary, it's about a dystopian future where surgery, and specifically possession of surgical instruments, is illegal. The "Blade Runners" are couriers that deliver the scalpels to underground surgery clinics. The name makes a lot more sense for that than for an android hunter but I'm happy we got the Blade Runner we got.
- gs17 4y agoWorse, the novel The Bladerunners' story treatment was later published as "Blade Runner (a movie)", not to be confused with Blade Runner, a movie.
- syntheweave 4y agoThis has a nice coda with the Commodore 64 game "Blade Runner" (A video game interpretation of the film score by Vangelis).