Collating the Postmodern

Abstract

Blade Runner may be considered a postmodern metanarrative in several aspects. One of these aspects is the idea of authorship. The very notion of copy and reproduction disappears in the title of the film. Ridley Scott borrowed the title from William Burroughs’s novel Blade Runner, a Movie. In his turn, Burroughs based his story on Alan Nourse’s novel The Bladerunner. However, the film is based upon Philip Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (DADES), in which the term is not used. So which Bladerunner is the original, Dick’s, Fancher’s, Peoples’s, Scott’s, Burroughs’s, or Nourse’s?