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Blade Runner (a movie) is a science fiction novella by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1979. The novella began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of The Bladerunner, a novel by Alan E. Nourse. (Some sources erroneously describe Burroughs' work as a screenplay.) A later edition published in the 1980s changed the formatting of the title to Blade Runner, a movie. William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ...
The novel The Bladerunner (also published as The Blade Runner) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse. ...
Alan E. Nourse (August 11, 1928 - July 19, 1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
A novella is a short novel; a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ...
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Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
A novella is a short novel; a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ...
The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...
William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ...
The novel The Bladerunner (also published as The Blade Runner) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse. ...
Alan E. Nourse (August 11, 1928 - July 19, 1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. ...
A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ...
No film eventuated, however the title Blade Runner was later bought for use in the 1982 Ridley Scott science fiction film, Blade Runner. Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields) is an influential English film director and producer. ...
Blade Runner is an influential 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ...
Burroughs' treatment is set in early 21st century and involves mutated viruses and what the back cover of the 1990 edition describes as "a medical-care apocalypse". The term "blade runner" referred to a smuggler of medical supplies, e.g. scalpels. A scalpel is a very sharp knife used for surgery as well as various arts and crafts. ...
| Works by William S. Burroughs | Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild Boys - Port of Saints - Cities of the Red Night - The Place of Dead Roads - The Western Lands - My Education: A Book of Dreams
Short fiction : Interzone - Exterminator! - Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology - Blade Runner (a movie) - Tornado Alley - Ghost of Chance
Non-fiction: The Yage Letters - The Electronic Revolution - The Job - The Third Mind - Letters to Allen Ginsberg - The Burroughs File - The Adding Machine: Collected Essays - The Cat Inside - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs - Evil River (announced 2007)
Recordings : Dead City Radio
Films: The Junky's Christmas - Ah Pook is Here - Naked Lunch
William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ...
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an unpublished manuscript written in 1945 by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, several years before the two Beat Generation founders achieved notoriety with On the Road and Junkie, respectively. ...
50th anniversary edition, with Burroughs intended title spelling. ...
1987 Penguin Books paperback edition. ...
Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs. ...
The Soft Machine is the title of a novel by William S. Burroughs, first published in 1961 and was Burroughs first novel after the grandbreaking publication of Naked Lunch. ...
The Ticket That Exploded is a novel by William S. Burroughs published in 1962. ...
1963 British hardcover edition. ...
Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. ...
1981 Seaver Books paperback edition. ...
The Wild Boys (full title The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead) is a novel written by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. ...
1983 paperback edition by John Calder. ...
Cities of the Red Night is a novel by beat author William S. Burroughs. ...
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs is the second book of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and concludes with The Western Lands. ...
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs is the final novel of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. ...
1990 paperback edition by Penguin Books. ...
1974 paperback edition by Viking Press. ...
The book by William S. Burroughs entitled Alis Smile/Naked Scientology was published i 1978 by Expanded Media Editions, Herwarthstr. ...
1989 paperback edition by Cherry Valley Editions. ...
Ghost of Chance is an adventure novella written by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. ...
Mid-1990s City Lights Books edition. ...
In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus is a very small unit of word and image [...] My basis theory is that the written word was literally a virus [...] The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis...
From the diary of a six year old boy at the American School in Tangier Morocco: I get up 8:30. ...
The Third Mind is a book by Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs and artist/poet/novelist Brion Gysin. ...
City Lights Books edition. ...
The Cat Inside is the title of an autobiographical novella written by William S. Burroughs and illustrated by Brion Gysin. ...
Evil River is an announced posthumous publication of writings by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, who died in 1997. ...
Dead City Radio is a musical album by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, which was released by Island Records in 1990. ...
The Junkys Christmas is a 1993 film by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel. ...
Naked Lunch is a 1991 film by the Canadian director David Cronenberg. ...
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