Blade Runner Lore: The Blade Runner Expanded Universe

This category collects the Blade Runner expanded universe on AvP Central, from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel through Ridley Scott's 1982 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. Scott's film, Villeneuve's sequel, and Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 series are listed as Blade Runner Movies. The year-by-year order of those films, the Titan comics, and Black Lotus is the Blade Runner timeline. Westwood's 1997 adventure game puts rookie blade runner Ray McCoy through the same November 2019 week on a Runciter animal case that runs beside Deckard's hunt.