Bladerunner was a distinctly cyberpunk vision, whereas Dick’s was dystopian but not necessarily cyberpunk. One reason why Bladerunner was as good was because Scott’s vision was so different from Dick’s. Bladerunner was of course patterned loosely after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. I have written that Bladerunner was that most rare of accomplishments, a film that was as good or better than the book. William Gibson said that while writing Neuromancer he went to see the Ridley Scott film Bladerunner and thought that his ideas for the book were hopelessly lost, that everyone would naturally assume that he had taken all of his queues from the film. Dick’s writing and wondered what would happen if you extended his vision into the not too distant future, if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix … and even if you like all the film and fiction that has made an attempt to be any of the above, you will love Neuromancer.
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