Blade Runner Books
books blade runner movies are Adapted from
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – 1968
In a post-nuclear war Earth where animals are extinct and status symbols, bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires six advanced Nexus-6 androids escaped from Mars. As he hunts them using empathy tests, Deckard questions humanity, empathy, and his own fading emotions amid a desolate world and the Mercerism religion.
Novelizations
Blade Runner: A Story of the Future – 1982
In dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, blade runner Rick Deckard hunts four escaped replicants seeking longer lives from creator Eldon Tyrell. These bioengineered humans, indistinguishable from people, force Deckard to confront empathy and identity as he tracks them through a decaying city, falling for replicant Rachael.
tie-in novels
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human – 1995
Months after fleeing with replicant Rachael, Rick Deckard hides in isolation while she ages slowly in stasis. Recaptured by Tyrell interests and tasked to hunt a mysterious sixth replicant, Deckard uncovers conspiracies blending human and replicant templates, blurring lines between reality and artificiality.
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night – 1996
Ex-blade runner Rick Deckard consults on a film recreating his hunts from an orbital studio. Drawn into delivering a talking briefcase to replicant rebels and encountering a child claiming to be Rachael, he navigates conspiracies involving Tyrell secrets and insurgent androids on Mars.
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon – 2000
Blade runner Iris investigates the theft of Tyrell's artificial owl, a key artifact tied to replicant secrets and Voigt-Kampff machines. Uncovering hidden conspiracies about empathy tests and gestalt transfers, she navigates dangers revealing deeper truths about human-replicant boundaries and corporate legacies.
Graphic NOvels
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – 2009
This faithful 24-issue comic adaptation by Tony Parker illustrates Philip K. Dick's novel verbatim, following bounty hunter Rick Deckard as he retires escaped Nexus-6 androids in a radioactive, animal-scarce Earth, exploring empathy, humanity, and Mercerism through detailed panels and original text narration.