Why Blade Runner Is Named After A Completely Different Book Than The 1968 Novel It's Based On
Blade Runner (a movie) is a novella written by famous Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs that was based on the original novel by Nourse. Both Nourse’s novel and Burroughs’ novella tell the story of a futuristic yet apocalyptic world in which Blade Runners are smugglers of medical equipment such as scalpels....
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