It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human ( 1995 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter, and a continuation of both the film Blade Runner, and the novel upon which it was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

* The character of John Isidore, and his " pet hospital ", is taken from Dick's original novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, although that book contained no suggestion that the shop ran a sideline in modifying replicants.

* The idea of replicant models being mass-produced, and in particular a woman identical to Rachael existing, is also from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem, Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.

The goddess is also referenced indirectly in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Though not named as Caledfwlch, Arthur's sword is described vividly in The Dream of Rhonabwy one of the tales associated with the Mabinogion:

Ellis Island: The Dream of America is a work for actors and orchestra with projected images by Peter Boyer, composed in 2001-02.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

* Pola Negri: Life is a Dream in Cinema ( 2006 ) ( as himself )

Written by Robert Riskin, it is one of the first of the " screwball comedies ", and with its release during the period of the Great Depression, critics considered it an escapist story and a variation of the " American Dream ".

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy .– Martin Luther King Jr .' s I Have a Dream speech, delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

* It is the subject of a ballet, Still Life at the Penguin Café, and a song, ' A Dream too Far ', in the ecological musical Rockford's Rock Opera.

Progressive metal band Dream Theater's song " The Dark Eternal Night " is based on Lovecraft's story " Nyarlathotep ".

The work intertwines the plots and characters of Calderon de la Barca's " Life is a Dream " with Shakespeare's " Hamlet.

" Little Nemo in Slumberland " is also the inspiration for the video of the 1989 song Runnin ' Down a Dream by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

In " Dream Thieves ", it is revealed that Brueghel killed Mahler and sold off his body during a slow night of business, and replaced him with a new man whom he nicknamed " Mahler " as a mocking tribute.

In the foundation myth expressed in the medieval Turkish story known as " Osman's Dream ", the young Osman was inspired to conquest by a prescient vision of empire ( according to his dream, the empire is a big tree whose roots spread through three continents and whose branches cover the sky ).

Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is Dream of the Rood, contained in the Vercelli Book.

Wertico is featured on the Drum Workshop videos " The American Dream II " and " The American Dream III.

* Segismundo, 21st century hero of the dramatic novel " United States of Banana " by Giannina Braschi, based on Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream.

The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.

Theseus is a prominent character as the Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

IFGS was named after a fictional group in the 1981 novel Dream Park, which described futuristic LARPs.

* Morpheus ( DC comics ), a moniker for Dream, a fictional god of dreams in the comic book The Sandman

Other fictional dream worlds include the Dreamlands of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle and The Neverending Storys world of Fantasia, which includes places like the Desert of Lost Dreams, the Sea of Possibilities and the Swamps of Sadness.

* Dream world ( plot device ), an unrealistically delightful fictional place

* Wilbur Mercer, fictional character in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction novel ' Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

* Dr. Gregory House watches the fictional show Prescription: Passion in the 2008 House episodes " No More Mr. Nice Guy " and " Living the Dream " ( though the show appeared as early as the pilot ).

The fictional show intersects with the outer series in " Living the Dream ," as House treats the star of the soap opera against the actor's will.

* Helena ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ), fictional character in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The Iron Dream is an alternate history novel, the bulk of which consists of a fictional fantasy classic entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by one Adolf Hitler, who in the novel is a writer rather than a demagogue.

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

He also appeared as a fictional version of himself in the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer and Apu " and in five episodes of Family Guy entitled " Peter's Got Woods ", " Back to the Woods ", " Brian Griffin's House of Payne, " And Then There Were Fewer ", and " Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream ".

* I Dream of Jeanie ( 1952 ) aka I Dream of Jeanie ( with the Light Brown Hair ), a completely fictional film biography of Stephen Foster.

Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity in the fictional Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Nightgaunts ( also Night-Gaunt or night-gaunt ) are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

The High Priest Not to Be Described ( Elder Hierophant, Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng ) is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

The Dream of Scipio ( Latin, Somnium Scipionis ), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he commanded at the destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE.

The game is set in the fictional world of the Dream Depot, consisting of seven game boards.

Sky has commissioned a number of United Kingdom-made programmes such as Dream Team, a drama series based on a fictional football team ; The Strangerers ( a science fiction sitcom that was dropped after one series and never repeated ); Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please ; and Baddiel's Syndrome.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The network's soccer coverage is not limited to game play ; Fox Soccer airs reruns of Dream Team, a British soap opera that aired in the UK on Fox Soccer's corporate cousin Sky One until 2007 and focused on a fictional Premiership team.

In March 2008, it was reported that John Batchelor, a bidder for Mansfield Town, planned to rename the club to Harchester United after the fictional squad from the TV series Dream Team to make the club " more promotable " if his bid were a success.

With a special download from Sports Interactive, you can play as the fictional football team, Harchester United from Sky One's series Dream Team.