Dicks' Androids And Scotts' Replicants
Philip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among some
of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and '60s, such as; William
Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-
fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually spoke of people trying to
figure out who they are, or what they are supposed to be. He is best known,
however, for his work in science-fiction, and this represents the majority of
his work. He has, also, won awards for two of his science-fiction novels. He
won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow ...
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from Dicks' original novel, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? (D.A.D.O.E.S.)
Blade Runner was released in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott,
who also made another sci-fi classic, Alien.
The film begins in the city of Los Angeles. The year is 2019. The city of
Los Angeles is overpopulated, teeming with all sorts of humans. Japanese ADs
are all over the place. The Japanese input was strictly the director, Ridley
Scot's. Scott saw the future world being controlled by the Japanese. Philip K.
Dick did not mention this. The planet is recovering from World War III,
although I'm not sure they actually say this. In the book, the war is clearly
stated and was called World War Terminus. The effects of the radiation has
mutated some people. Only the ones who had not been disfigured or altered
genetically by radiation from the nuclear bombs could emigrate, (leave the
planet earth). Some, who were perfectly healthy chose to stay, however. They
stayed because they ...
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many humans on earth, so a law was passed that didn't allow androids on
the planet.
In the novel, this is where the bounty hunters come in. Their job is to
retire (kill) the androids, who have somehow escaped to earth or just were never
weeded out from the other humans.
You might be wondering why I said bounty hunter instead of blade runner?
Well, the term blade runner is never used in the novel. Apparently, Ridley
Scott wanted a specific name for the people who hunted down the androids. He
didn't want to just call them bounty hunters. Scott was told of a William
Burroughs book named Blade Runner: The Movie. The book was never a movie.
Burroughs just had that in ...
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