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