Blade Runner was based on Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?, which was all about what it means to be human. Although Dick liked the
film, the book is very different. For a plot summary of this and lots of other
Dick works see http://jrowse.mtx.net/pkd/pkd.html.
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