World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins,bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked,in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey.
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When he wasn't'retiring'them with his laser weapon,he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.
Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets,for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple,and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter,rather than the hunted.
As the eagerly-anticipated new filmBlade Runner 2049finally comes to the screen,rediscover the world of Blade Runner . . .
Philip Kindred Dick(1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels,typically character studies incorporating androids,drugs,and hallucinations.His best works are generally agreed to beThe Man in the High CastleandDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,the inspiration for the movieBlade Runner.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9780575094185Number of pages: 208Weight: 187 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 18 mm
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One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction,Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sacMy literary heroFor everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world,remember: Philip K. Dick got there firstA masterclass in sci-fi wonderment
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