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Recently it was announced that a SEQUEL was in the works for the cult sci-fi classic BLADE RUNNER. I wondered what it might be about when it was mentioned that a likely source for the story would be a book that was written twenty years ago
BLADE RUNNER 2:
The Edge Of Human
by K. W. Jeter
A year after the events that took place in the movie BLADE RUNNER, Rick Deckard is forced out of hiding and back into his former profession.
I heard about this book recently after all the talk about Ridley Scott going back to his old work and making a sequel. I was wondering what it be based on since the original source work, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick, was a stand alone. Then was when I was told that there WAS a Blade Runner 2 out there. So I had to get it.
The truth is that there's not only a sequel, but an entire TRILOGY written, based on the characters and the world of Blade Runner.
This story, THE EDGE OF HUMAN, went deeper into the question of who truly was human, and what makes one human. The concept is good, but I wasn't so sure about the way this author was putting it out there.
The most important new character introduced into the realm of Blade Runner was Sarah Tyrell, the niece of Dr. Elden Tyrell. She was the heir to the empire and a ruthless bitch. She also happened to be the "templant" for the Rachael series Replicants. She brings Rick Deckard back from his self-imposed exile to hunt down a replicant that was loose in LA.
The pages are filled with new characters and their development. It also seems that, at times, this is more the story of Dave Holden. The author seems to spend all too much time going through his thought processes, which were always wrong, establishing that Dave was a complete moron.
Mostly, I would describe this book as weakly written. All the characters seem to be either bi-polar or schizophrenic, swaying from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other for no apparent reason. All the characters use the same throw-away phrases and idioms. The author spends a lot of time trying to establish that all Blade Runners were Replicants, yet the story also throws in details that prove otherwise.
Despite being choppy and, many times, annoying the story had something of an unexpected ending which forced my opinion of the story to go from bad to mediocre.
If you're a fan of the original book and / or the movie, you might want to pass on this fan-fiction novel.
The truth is that there's not only a sequel, but an entire TRILOGY written, based on the characters and the world of Blade Runner.
This story, THE EDGE OF HUMAN, went deeper into the question of who truly was human, and what makes one human. The concept is good, but I wasn't so sure about the way this author was putting it out there.
The most important new character introduced into the realm of Blade Runner was Sarah Tyrell, the niece of Dr. Elden Tyrell. She was the heir to the empire and a ruthless bitch. She also happened to be the "templant" for the Rachael series Replicants. She brings Rick Deckard back from his self-imposed exile to hunt down a replicant that was loose in LA.
The pages are filled with new characters and their development. It also seems that, at times, this is more the story of Dave Holden. The author seems to spend all too much time going through his thought processes, which were always wrong, establishing that Dave was a complete moron.
Mostly, I would describe this book as weakly written. All the characters seem to be either bi-polar or schizophrenic, swaying from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other for no apparent reason. All the characters use the same throw-away phrases and idioms. The author spends a lot of time trying to establish that all Blade Runners were Replicants, yet the story also throws in details that prove otherwise.
Despite being choppy and, many times, annoying the story had something of an unexpected ending which forced my opinion of the story to go from bad to mediocre.
If you're a fan of the original book and / or the movie, you might want to pass on this fan-fiction novel.
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