title: Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
author:  Judith B. Kerman 
description: From dust jacket: Blade Runner's richness and fundamental integrity will continue to fascinate viewers for years to come. Its implications as a thought experiment provide a starting point for urgently important thinking about the moral issues implicit in a hypertechnological society. Yet its importance in the history of science fiction and science fiction film rests equally on its mythically and psychologically resonant creation of compelling characters and an exciting story within a credible science fiction setting.
zlib_text: South China Morning Post EDITION: INTERNATIONAL * * * WED * OCT 4, 2017 ARTS &
  ENTERTAINMENT * Culture?Arts & Entertainment VIDEO GAMING Video gaming The
  Blade Runner effect: the best eight video games that were influenced by the
  original film The epitome of cyberpunk, Blade Runner's influence on the
  entertainment world has been huge. Here are eight games that reference the
  sci-fi classic PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 04 October, 2017, 1:01pm UPDATED :
  Wednesday, 04 October, 2017, 1:01pm Pavan Shamdasani 4 Oct 2017 Blade Runner's
  influence is without parallel. The cult film, a critical and commercial flop
  on its initial release, is now seen as a masterpiece of sci-fi cinema, an
  ahead-of-its-time classic that inspired an entire legion of filmmakers. But
  its inspiration isn't limited to the film world: novelists have used it as the
  basis for the cyberpunk subgenre, Vangelis' score influenced a host of
  electronic music producers, and everything from comic books to anime, TV shows
  to modern techn