Blade Runner

Philip K. Dick

Ballantine Books, 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)

Contents

• Chapter ONE: 1
• Chapter TWO: 12
• Chapter THREE: 23

About the author

Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 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 1963, 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 of a stroke in Santa Ana, California, in 1982.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blade Runner; A Del Rey book; Ballantine Books; Blade Runner; Del Rey; Movie-tie-in edition
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1982
• ISBN: 0345350472, 9780345350473
• Length: 216 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General