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On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 5:23:27 AM UTC+3, George Cornelius wrote:
> In article <e2a3bca6-7e34-4c64-84a8-23b0e76a759e at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> > I loved that book (DADOES) but after the movie "Blade Runner" first aired,
> > DADOES was remarketed with a black+blue cover featuring the word "Blade Run-
> > ner" in RED along with pictures from the movie. Anyone who read the book
> > knows that book is considerably different than the movie. In fact, there has
> > never been a book released which tells the story conveyed in the movie. Did
> > I mention that Deckard was married in DADOES, and there are interactions
> > with his wife at their  apartment which includes neighbors who could afford
> > "electric sheep"? There are no "electric sheep" in the movie, just a passing
> > reference to an "artificial owl" with no explanation of the significance.
> 
> I mostly ignored the electric sheep part of the story line.  Such an
> odd situation: living in the big city, that was the closest you could
> come to having a real pet, and you had to wait in line for a license
> for it.
> 
> > In the case of the "Blade Runner" movie no book comes close so if you want
> > to experience that story-line you will need to read as well as watch. But to
> > fully experience it you need to read all the books, including two that book
> > marketers claim were sanctioned by Philip K. Dick
> >
> >  http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/Blade-Runner.html
> >
> > as well as a neat game which was only popular on PCs where "you" play the
> > part of Rick Deckard.
> 
> I don't recall paying any attention to what the differences were.  After
> I saw the PKD title mentioned in the movie credits I knew I had to read
> the book.
> 
> Wasn't he a policeman in the novel, with a job of hunting down the
> malfunctioning androids?  Sure, he had a wife and a home life, such
> as it was - and an electric sheep - but apparently they omitted all
> that.  It's not as if that's any different from the norm in Hollywood,
> then or now.
> 
> PKD is quite interesting.  He was paid next to nothing to write the
> marvellously titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"  Turns
> out that almost all of what he wrote was considered pulp fiction
> and he was paid accordingly.

Even "The Man in the High Castle" ?
It seems to me, after reading few pages everybody will recognize that it's very good literature.


> 
> When Hollywood discovered him, I suppose as a result of Blade Runner,
> things changed, and rights to his books became hot properties.
> 
> George