But Blade Runner is only nominally based on the original. Many know of the book solely through the film. For, as with much of his oeuvre (44 novels, 121 short stories and 14 short-story collections), it is ideas that propel the book into the imaginative stratosphere - and inspired director Ridley Scott to craft the masterly 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner. Yet to debate Dick’s strengths as a stylist is to miss the point of Androids. Only William Shakespeare coined neologisms as brazenly. How had Dick got that past an editor? As Watts told me: “I knew at that point that Dick had to be some kind of sick genius.” Further on in the novel are the boldly redundant “disemelevatored” and the sublime “kipple” - a word for ‘junk’ that encapsulates the stuff’s sinister tendency to multiply entropically. Dick’s 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a word caught his eye. When science-fiction writer Peter Watts first opened Philip K. Credit: Entertainment Pictures/Alamyĭo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. A still from the 1982 film adaptation Bladerunner.
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