Blade Runner (Movie-Tie-In Edition)

Philip K. Dick

Random House Digital, Inc., 1982 - Fiction - 216 pages

Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers, while bounty hunter Rick Deckard sets out to track down the replicants. Reissue. (Tie-in to the Fall 2007 release of the deluxe twenty-fifth anniversary DVD of the Warner Bros. film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and others) (Science Fiction)

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Review: Blade Runner

User Review  - Trisha - Goodreads

Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter, responsible for tracking down and killing any android that has managed to escape and return to Earth. His current assignment involves eight androids who emigrated from ...

Review: Blade Runner

User Review  - Erik Graff - Goodreads

Not Dick's best, but, like Vonnegut, he plays on a great number of themes common in many of his stories and novels here and that alone will make it interesting to those who appreciate his work ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 13
• Section 3: 25
• Section 4: 33
• Section 5: 46
• Section 6: 59
• Section 7: 67
• Section 8: 82
• Section 9: 95
• Section 10: 110
• Section 11: 119
• Section 12: 127
• Section 13: 143
• Section 14: 152
• Section 15: 164
• Section 16: 182
• Section 17: 194
• Section 18: 201
• Section 19: 214
• Section 20: 223
• Section 21: 226
• Section 22: 234

About the author

Phillip Kindred Dick is an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1928, Dick worked in radio and studied briefly at the University of California at Berkeley before embarking on his writing career. His first novel, Solar Lottery, was published in 1955. In 1962, Dick won the Hugo Award for his novel, The Man in the High Castle. He also wrote a series of futuristic tales about artificial creatures on the loose; notable of these was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was later adapted into film as Blade Runner. Dick also published several collections of short stories. He died in Santa Ana, California, in 1982.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blade Runner (Movie-Tie-In Edition); A Del Rey book; Ballantine Books; Blade Runner; Del Rey; Movie-tie-in edition
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 1982
• ISBN: 0345350472, 9780345350473
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Media Tie-In; Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / General