From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!houca!lime!we13!otuxa!nwuxc!inuxc!burton
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Blade Runner
Article-I.D.: inuxc.188
Posted: Wed Jun 30 15:54:20 1982
Received: Thu Jul  1 05:48:48 1982
References: cmcl2.6055

I have yet to see Blade Runner, but the questions
posted by Jan Edler about the social order of androids, and their
oppression, reminds me a great deal of an old novel by Clifford
Simak, called Time and Again. It deals with the problems of androids
who only differ from 'real humans' in their inability to reproduce
themselves. To further distinguish them, they are marked with a number
on their forehead. The story concerns a man who is supposed to write
a book about Manifest Destiny, which causes a great war in the future
between androids and humankind, and the efforts of both sides to
prevent/aid him in writing the book. Anyway, I'm just wondering if
anyone else has read the book, and is the  social order and conflicts
in Blade runner similar? 

	Doug Burton
	Bell Labs, Indianapolis