Exploring the Blade Runner Universe

In 1982, a new benchmark was set for science-fiction film with the release of Blade Runner. Based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by the acclaimed novelist Philip K. Dick and directed by Ridley Scott, Blade Runner was a visual and philosophical tour-de-force, set in a dystopian future in which artificially intelligent replicants, nearly indistinguishable from humans, are hunted down by police-operatives known as Blade Runners. Featuring the talents of Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy, Edward James Olmos, and Darryl Hannah, the film tackled numerous themes and birthed controversies that have been poured over by fans and critics ever since. Blade Runner has also inspired literary and comic-book spin-offs, and a cinematic sequel released in 2017.

The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe examines the entire Blade Runner saga, from the original novel to its numerous film iterations. The book features a foreword by Paul M. Sammon (Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner). Essayists include Bryce Carlson (of BOOM! Comics’ Sheep adaptation), Paul J. Salamoff, Robert Meyer Burnett, Rich Handley, Zaki Hasan, Julian Darius, and many others, with a cover by popular artist Matt Busch.

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Lou Tambone is an independent musician, freelance writer, and UI/UX designer from New Jersey. A lifelong fan of pop culture, he was an early HTML adopter, creating and maintaining some of the first Star Wars fan sites under the Starwarz.com banner. As well as the occasional magazine and web piece, he’s made many contributions to essay anthologies from Sequart on the Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Wars franchises. His editing credits include The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe and Somewhere Beyond the Heavens: Exploring Battlestar Galactica. When he's not reading or writing stories, he’s usually writing music or rehearsing with one of his many bands. During his "spare" time, he tries to remember to eat and breathe.

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New York native Joe Bongiorno is the author of the eight-volume book series Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics. In 1992, Joe created the exhaustive Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline (www.starwarstimeline.net), which has gone on to feature several licensed but unpublished stories in the Star Wars universe, including his own novel Supernatural Encounters. Joe also started the Royal Timeline of Oz (www.oztimeline.net) and the Royal Publisher of Oz, in order to publish new stories in the universe started by L. Frank Baum, including the anthology The Lost Tales of Oz, illustrated by Eric Shanower. Joe has co-edited The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe and contributed essays on Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes for several anthologies by Sequart, his most recent being a look at Satan in cinema, in Musings on Monsters. Joe currently lives in an ever-expanding Long Island library where he caters to the demands of too many cats and dogs.

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