![]() ![]() The film eventually gained great fame, and the novel was eventually re-titled to match. ![]() The film company bought the rights to another novel by a different author and threw away everything but the title– Blade Runner–a term which occurs nowhere in the book. When Ridley Scott made his 1982 film based loosely on the novel he eliminated the electric sheep (along with much else), and Dick’s title no longer made sense (nor would it have been very effective on a marquee). His titles are often wonderfully surrealistic, as in the striking Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and Blade Runner was originally titled (for reasons that will become apparent as you read it) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Yet his conceptions were often brilliant, and he has come to be looked on as one of the masters, though only a small fraction of his work is in print at any one time. He was obsessive, disorganized, and in his later years paranoid. He was too prolific for his own good, churning out dozens of novels for cheap paperback publication, often in such haste that their conclusions tend to be their weakest part. ![]() Dick is one of the crucial figures in modern science fiction. ![]()
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