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THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM BLADE RUNNER COMES TO
COMICS! Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K.
Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC
SHEEP? has been called ''a masterpiece ahead of its
time, even today'' and served as the basis for the film
BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the
complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium,
mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual
text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking
24-issue maxi-series experiment. San Francisco lies
under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has
killed millions, driving entire species to extinction
and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained
coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't
afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes:
horses, birds, cats, sheep... even humans. Rick Deckard
is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find
six rogue androids -- they're machines, but look, sound,
and think like humans -- clever, and most of all,
dangerous humans. Rick Deckard, Pris, The Voight-Kampff
Test, Nexus 6 androids, the Tyrell Corporation: join us
for the publishing event of the year! ''After I finished
reading the screenplay for BLADE RUNNER, I got the novel
out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other,
so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy
the movie and someone who started with the movie would
enjoy the novel.'' -- Philip K. Dick |
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