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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? influenced Blade Runner
Added by · 5 August 2026
The influence
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Book · 1968
The work it shaped
Blade Runner
Film · 1982
The evidence
Loose adaptation but it retains the core elements of Dick's novel:
- Rick Deckard as the protagonist.
- Androids (renamed "replicants") hunted by bounty hunters ("blade runners").
- Roy Batty (Roy Baty in the novel) as the principal antagonist.
- Questions about humanity, identity, and artificial life.
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