as an addendum to my blade runner opinions: no the book doesn’t clear anything up or have anything to do with the movie really at all
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it’s good and should be read (and it’s short; PKD was a speed freak), but as a companion piece. the book and movie are different stories
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to get extremely “name three of their albums” about this, you can also read Blade Runner: A Movie by Burroughs, the origin of the title
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...WHICH IN TURN IS BASED ON the Alan E. Nourse novel, the Bladerunner, a 1974 scifi novel about a near future healthcare crisis
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i’ve never been clear on why the screenwriters decided to call replicant hunters “blade runners” because the term makes no sense that way
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in the Nourse and Burroughs pieces, a bladerunner is an underground courier of medical supplies, especially scalpels
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i haven’t read Nourse but i remember the Burroughs screenplay being pretty batshit, as well as racist.
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if you watch the entire BR movie credits it will say “special thanks to William S. Burroughs” near the end. that’s how i found out abt it
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i bet the Nourse novel is good. i love that mid-70s, new wave sci fi so much
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I read the Nourse as a kid, thinking it was the novelization. Confusing! It's pretty ok, gritty-techno-dystopia vibe
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