* In the 1982 film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, the main offices of the fictional Tyrell Corporation ( a Megacorp ) resemble a hyperstructure.

Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night ( 1996 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter that continues the story of Rick Deckard.

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 ?.

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.

Category: Blade Runner spin-offs

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?

Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, which slows down the replicant aging process.

The book's plot draws from other material related to Blade Runner in a number of ways:

* Deckard, Pris, Sebastian, Leon, Batty, and Holden all appeared in Blade Runner.

* Blade Runner < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Sebastian was based on Electric Sheep < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Isidore, though Jeter features them as separate characters in The Edge of Human.

* " The Final Cut " of Blade Runner removed all reference to a sixth replicant, as it was normally considered a filming goof.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

* Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night

* Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon

Category: Blade Runner spin-offs

Blade Runner can be seen as a quintessential example of the cyberpunk style and theme.

For example, Philip K. Dick's works contain recurring themes of social decay, artificial intelligence, paranoia, and blurred lines between objective and subjective realities, and the influential cyberpunk movie Blade Runner is based on one of his books.

A futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner.

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.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

Within the United States Graffiti Artists such as Mike Giant, Pursue, Rime, Noah and countless others have made careers in skateboard, apparel and shoe design for companies such as DC Shoes, Adidas, Rebel8 Osiris or Circa Meanwhile there are many others such as DZINE, Daze, Blade, The Mac that have made the switch to gallery artists often times not even using their initial medium, spray paint.

Some reviewers have identified similarities between the style and narrative of the 2003 Korean film Natural City and Dick's novel, as well as Blade Runner.

which inspired Blade Runner used the term android ( andy ), but director Ridley Scott wanted a new term that did not have preconceptions.

Over the years a number of bootleg recordings of the Blade Runner soundtrack from unknown sources have been released, mostly targeted to collectors as " private releases ", that contain most of the music cues ( including the Ladd Company logo theme ).

* Blade micrometers have a matching set of narrow tips ( blades ).

In the video game Ninja Gaiden 2, the dual-wielded swords have a technique called Blade of Nirrti.

Namco chose to use the title Soul Blade in Europe, North America and Australia ; following Soul Edge's sequel, Soulcalibur, subsequent installments in the franchise have all been released under the title of Soulcalibur, by which the franchise is now most commonly known.

In some cases, robots have even been the leading characters in science fiction films ; in the 1982 film Blade Runner, many of the characters are bioengineered android " replicants ".

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

Although the band did not have enough time to sell any records while touring, the album became Metal Blade Records ' highest selling release.

In recent years, these accusations have resurfaced as Kevin Naff, current editor of the Blade, has accused the Washington Post of ' straight-washing ' stories about LGBT individuals.

* In the Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade, many screens showing fields have scarecrows with a henohenomoheji face.

However, Razor and Blade have contacted hackers around the world, who lend their support with virus attacks, distracting Plague long enough for Dade to download the incriminating file to a floppy disk.

and Last Blade were never previously released in United States, meaning that they have no US-localized box or manual ; however, these titles did receive a European release, incorporating an English translation.

Since then, a lull of inactivity that would last three years would come about, and since then Ancient have parted ways with Metal Blade Records due to the completion of their recording contract and the label's " supposed " loss of interest in the black metal genre.

Applegate was inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame at the 1994 Blade Show in Atlanta, Georgia in recognition of the impact his designs have made upon the cutlery industry and for his writings on knife fighting.

Csupó said some elements of the show have a look similar to the film noir genre, and called the city dump where the monster characters reminiscent of the visual style from the films Blade Runner ( 1982 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

The attackers have been baited by uncontented Nightshadows and the Balor, Wendonai, acting through the Crescent Blade and Qilué.

In total, nine of the directors were politicians, five were members of the Sword Blade consortium and seven more financial magnates who had been attracted to the scheme.

The Sword Blade company arranged to spread a rumour that the Pretender himself had been captured, and the general euphoria encouraged the South Sea share price to rise from £ 100 where it had been in the spring to £ 114.

This interpretation of vampires has since then been used in several science-fiction stories dealing with vampires, most famously the Blade movie series.

EIAS has been used in numerous film and television productions such as Piranha 3D, Alien Trespass, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Daddy Day Care, K-19: The Widowmaker, Gangs of New York, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Men In Black II, The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Time Machine, Ticker, JAG-Pilot Episode, Spawn, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Galaxy Quest, Mission to Mars, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Titan A. E., U-571, Dinosaur, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day-DVD Intro, Jungle Book 2, American President, Sleepers, Star Wars Special Edition, Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Return of Jedi Special Edition, Bicentennial Man, Vertical Limit, Elf, Blade Trinity, and Lost In Space.

Since the Blade had been a profitable newspaper, and because the debt-ridden Window Media was no longer draining the publication's finances, the same day the Blade shut down, Naff told the Washington City Paper he and the remaining staffers " We're all together.

" Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said the Blade had been a " weekly must-read ", and pledged support for a new publication to serve Washington's LGBT community.

The band filed suit against Metal Blade, claiming they had not earned any royalties from their album ’ s sales, which was attributed to a " grossly unfair, one-sided and unenforceable contract " which had been signed by the band in 1987.

On May 11, 2004, Lt. Col. Pamela Hart informed Toledo Blade reporters that she had been too busy responding to prisoner abuse by U. S. soldiers in Iraq to check on the status of the Tiger Force case.

" Duncan Harris emphasised, in his Computer and Video Games article " Blade Runner: A classic revisited ", that " critics may have been divided over the means by which you got there: a logical trail of clues, many of which were less the result of detective work than blind luck and idle exploration ...", " but you couldn't deny that here, for once, was a movie tie-in which put the movie first, dismissing thoughts of its own genre and letting the subject dictate the design.

Bean's first love was football and he has been a passionate Sheffield United supporter from a young age ; he has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads 100 % Blade.

During Flotsam and Jetsam's tour with Megadeth and KORN they had been dropped from MCA and returned to their former label Metal Blade Records.

A video game based on the novel, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, has been released by video game studio Paradox.

He has been a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Association of Space Explorers, Phi Eta Sigma, and the Scabbard and Blade ( a military honor society ).

King and Drake were originally thought by Blade to have been killed in the explosion that destroyed Varnae.