Blade Runner is my favorite movie without a doubt. I really do not know which I like better though between the film and the book. They have a different feel to them. Blade Runner firmly fits in the cyberpunk genre imo and Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? Is post-apocalyptic/Distopian with most people no longer living on earth and the world being very bleak, run down and in ruins.Ack wrote:I'd argue most of his stories turned into movies was better, though I have a soft spot in my heart for Total Recall, and I loved Blade Runner more than Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, though I enjoyed the book very much.Octopod wrote:I also have to second PKD. He is one of my favorite authors. Read The Minority Report, it is better than the movie. One of my favorite short stories he wrote is Autofac but it is post-apocalyptic. Captive Market is good too. Hell the guy wrote like hundreds of short stories and I have never read a PKD story I didn't like.
Have any of you guys ever read Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic? It's difficult to find a copy in English, and I have difficulty labeling it cyberpunk...but then again I have difficulty labeling it in any subgenre of science fiction. The only way I have of describing it is that it's the basis for both the film Stalker and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.
JT, how did you like Neuromancer? I just re-read it myself.
