Blade Runner Lore: The Blade Runner Expanded Universe

Neon Los Angeles street scene from Blade Runner with rain and city lights

This category collects the Blade Runner expanded universe on AvP Central, from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel through Ridley Scott's film and later stories. Dick's book is set in dusty San Francisco in January 1992, where bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped Nexus-6 androids and tends an electric sheep. The 1982 film moved that hunt to neon Los Angeles, dropped Mercerism and the electric animals, and gave the street Cityspeak the book never used. K. W. Jeter's 1995 sequel continues that film in August 2020, not Dick's San Francisco day. Later books follow Deckard through Replicant Night and close the authorized line with Eye and Talon. The novels sit together as Blade Runner Books, an authorized alternate sequel line that Blade Runner 2049 later contradicted.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? novel cover

Do Androids Dream: Novel Plot, Characters & Lore


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel about bounty hunter Rick Deckard in dusty San Francisco after World War Terminus. He hunts escaped Nexus-6 androids while Iran, special J. R. Isidore, Mercerism, and an electric sheep fill a January 1992 later filmed as Blade Runner.

By Janno Vares September 19, 2026   Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Books