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One of the first things you have to let go of when watching Blade Runner is the temptation to compare the movie, Blade Runner, with the book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By the number one SF writer of all time, Philip K. Dick. Yes, the mechanical pets are absent (but a monologue discussing the absence of real animals in the future does appear in the film). Yes, the ending is different, but the medium of printed word and published work is very different than the filmic medium, so time lapses, character development, etc., will be necessarily altered in the latter. Read more here. (0)