Plenty of books have already been written about ‘Blade Runner’, but for some reason authors and publishers still can’t resist taking the film out for one more trip around the block. In this particular case, it’s a trip that’s short and sweet but well worth taking, even though there’s very little here (if anything) that most die-hard ‘Blade Runner’ aficionados won’t have come across before.
Beginning with the questions ‘What is Genre? What is Science Fiction?’, author Sean Redmond quickly makes the case that ‘Blade Runner’ isn’t just iconic vintage SF, it is also stylistically a classic detective noir. Even if, for many of us, this is very much a back-to-basics ‘Blade Runner 101’ analysis, it’s still interesting to read what Redmond has to say about it, and his POV becomes more compelling in the following chapters: he investigates and dissects the narrative of ‘Blade Runner’ from various angles, discusses the film’s cyberpunk urbanism,
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/16085-constellationsbladerunner
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