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Title: Not as powerful as the movie
Review: Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time, and picking up this book I expected alot. Dick's writing is completely contrary to Ridley Scott's film, though. Dick's style focuses on queer details about the philosophies of the future (Mercerism, obsession with animals), whereas Scott conveys the more poignant details about the fine line between replicants (andys) and humans. The most crushing difference between the two was the purpose of an android four year life span. In the book, it is simply a question of the cells dying without regenerating. In the movie, it is an engineered tool used to kill the replicant slave just as it gains the emotional capabilities to appreciate life. There are no emotional adaptations in the andys of Dick's book. The androids are so callous and loathsome that the reader doesn't care when Dekkard retires them.
