Tag: Blade Runner

Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles

Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles

by Michael Green & Mike Johnson; ill. Andres Guinaldo (Titan, 2019)

Book cover: “Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles” by Michael Green & Mike Johnson; ill. Andres Guinaldo (Titan, 2019)

This Blade Runner prequel does a passable job in capturing the murky, near-future dystopian vibes of the original film. The storytelling is straightforward, the art bleak and uncompromising. Ash is a more action-minded protagonist than Deckard but her assignment carries similar ambiguities.

Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

dir. Denis Villeneuve (2017)

Villeneuve_Blade Runner 2049

A sequel that stays genuinely true to the original, both evoking it directly and building on its themes. Most tellingly, Blade Runner 2049 eschews action scenes in favour of character, and makes its murky near-future dystopia a given rather than the focus.

 

 

Black Man

Black Man

by Richard Morgan (Gollancz, 2007)

Morgan_Black Man

Anybody looking for the written equivalent of Blade Runner should try the immersive, unromanticised near-future science fiction of Richard Morgan. Black Man (or, rebranded with North American irony, Thirteen) is a stark, at times gruesome classic, pitting genetic manipulation against human prejudice.

 

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