Instead of a single bounty hunter, we now have four young women wearing “hard suits,” mechanized armor that gives the wearer superhuman abilities, battling berserk replicants - oops, I mean “boomers.” I’ve not seen the series or its sequel, Bubblegum Crash according to what I’ve read, they’re stong on atmosphere and action, weak on plot and characterization. In 1987, Toshimichi Suzuki and a crew of Japanese animators began an OVA (direct-to-video) series called Bubblegum Crisis. Apparently it works for most people I must be the only person alive who doesn’t think that Blade Runner is a modern classic. In 1982, Ridley Scott made a movie called Blade Runner, in which the scriptwriter carefully excised most everything that was interesting in Dick’s novel, even the electric toad, leaving only the notion of a bounty hunter pursuing renegade androids - oops, I mean “replicants.” To substitute for the missing elements, Scott added lots of noirish atmosphere and Harrison Ford. ![]() Dick wrote a novel called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in which he pondered the definition of “human.” Does singing Mozart beautifully qualify the singer as human? Do the mentally defective count? Is it a question of psychology or physiology? Do Androids Dream is hardly Dick’s best book - if you’ve never read Dick, I recommend starting with The Man in the High Castle - but it provides the reader with much to think about.
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