Replicant Night (Blade Runner, Book 3) [Hardcover]

K.W. Jeter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1996 | Series: Blade Runner

The Blade Runner adventure continues in this dark and stylish novel of nonstop futuristic suspense as ex-blade runner Rick Deckard must cross the most dangerous line of all--the line between human and android.

Rick Deckard had left his career as a blade runner and the gritty, neon-lit labyrinth of L.A. behind, going to the emigrant colony of Mars to live incognito with Sarah Tyrell.  But when a movie about Deckard's life begins shooting, old demons start to surface.  The most bizarre and mysterious is a talking briefcase--the voice belonging to Deckard's most feared adversary.  The briefcase tells Deckard that he's the key to a replicant revolution back on Earth.  Deckard must deliver the briefcase--the secret contents--to the replicants of the outer colonies before he is tracked down and killed.  Is the briefcase lying?  Who is really after Deckard?  And who is the little girl who claims her name is Rachael?  Once again Deckard is on the run from a sinister force determined to destroy him--and already closing in.


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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Is it real or is it a replicant? Nothing is what it seems in Jeter's second sequel to Ridley Scott's classic SF film, Blade Runner, itself based on Philip K. Dick's classic novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Here, Jeter casts doubt on the identity of just about every character who appeared in either the film or the previous sequel, The Edge of Human (1995). The action opens in the orbital studio Outer Hollywood, where a video is being made of Rick Deckard's original pursuit of the rogue replicants, with Deckard acting as technical advisor. After both a replicant and Deckard's former partner are murdered, Deckard storms off the set to head back to Mars, where he lives in squalor with Sarah Tyrell, former heir to the defunct Tyrell company, the original creators of all replicants. Sarah, however, out of her mind with bitterness and boredom, plans to murder Deckard upon his return. Fortunately for Deckard, she is whisked back to Earth by two disciples of her dead uncle, the evil genius Eldon Tyrell. There, she is convinced to reenter the time-warping derelict starship on which she was born, in search of information about her past. If this sounds confusing, it is. Reality could not be trusted in either Scott's film or the Dick novel, and matters have gotten only more complex since Jeter took over the franchise. Readers unfamiliar with the story's previous incarnations will have a hard time figuring out what's going on here. Blade Runner aficionados, however, will enjoy the many twists and turns, suddenly revealed secrets and cameo appearances by characters who died in earlier installments of the series.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Jeter follows up his Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (Bantam/Spectra, 1995) with the continuing saga of Rick Deckard, created by the late Philip K. Dick and immortalized on film by Ridley Scott. While consulting on a film about his life, the weary android-hunter Deckard becomes embroiled in a clandestine delivery of a talking briefcase to insurgent replicant androids and the discovery of a ten-year-old girl who is the key to the Tyrell Corporation's slogan, "More human than human." Jeter captures Dick's original darkness and sends his characters through their dismal world with aplomb. Highly recommended for sf collections and for fans of Dick's books and the film.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 321 pages
• Publisher: Spectra (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553099833
• ISBN-13: 978-0553099836
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,538,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing, January 24, 2001

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Robert E Wilson "robewil" (West Covina, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blade Runner: Replicant Night (Blade Runner, Book 3) (Paperback)

Jeter's "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human" was a fairly good read that captured most of the feel of the movie Blade Runner. (It's important to realize that these books are sequels to the film, not the Phillip K. Dick Book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") I got the feeling that Jeter's intention of his first sequel was to provide closure to what happened after the events of the film and would create new adventures in the Blade Runner future. Instead, in "Replicant Night", he goes right back to Los Angeles 2019 and revisits scenes that were done in the film. I felt I did not need those scenes embellished any further, I wanted something fresh. Unfortunately, there was nothing fresh about this book at all.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The only thing good about this book is the trademark., September 4, 1999

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This review is from: Replicant Night (Blade Runner, Book 3) (Hardcover)

What can I possibly say that is GOOD about this book?? The Blade Runner trademark! I guess that's all Jeter needed to sell this book. Obviously so, because the book itself is only useful for emergency burning paper.

It suffers from the 2nd book's replay of the movie's events, ONLY MUCH MUCH WORSE. There were just TOO many replays this time, and it just became a rediculous "Find The Replays" Activity Book!

My advice (and apparently many others' too) is to skip this installment of the Blade Runner books. Just pretend you never saw it....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Series killer, January 6, 2005

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T. Hinton "Irobot" (Sillicon Valley) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Replicant Night (Blade Runner, Book 3) (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the moive, and the original and the blade runner 2 book. However, this book 3 is not worth the read. Once you start the book, it gives you teasers, and deckard the information but not you. So you wait and read to find out what deckard knows. Then when you do, it was not much. It reads more like a crime drama that takes place in a movie set than anything to do with science fiction. The author must have been hanging around movie sets at the time of writing. The book basically makes deckard look lame, he does nothing on his own, he only reacts to all these people feeding him different information. The story does not even make a good case for why he is picked for this information. Some author's write a private bible of the world they are writing about, then they write the book based on that world they created in their bible. However I get the feeling that this book is lacking so much information because the author never took the time to write a bible before the book and doe not know any of the answers himself to this world in the book. My advice is to stop at the second book. Don't let this book ruin the series for you. Too bad someone like Kevin Anderson did not write this.