The term "blade runner" didn't come from the novel, though. That term came from a treatment for a 1974 novel, The Bladerunner, that was never used. People wanted to turn Dick's novel into a film for ...
The '80s were full of sci-fi stories that imagined an otherworldly future, whether lawless, as seen in Escape from New York, or desolate apocalypses, as seen in The Road Warrior. Ridley Scott, however ...