In this letter from Philip K. Dick to The Ladd Company, he references a Harrison Ford interview where he says that that Blade Runner is not fantasy nor science fiction, but futurism.
What's did he mean by that? What else would fit into this genre?
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Sign up to join this communityIn this letter from Philip K. Dick to The Ladd Company, he references a Harrison Ford interview where he says that that Blade Runner is not fantasy nor science fiction, but futurism.
What's did he mean by that? What else would fit into this genre?
Fiction that is based on hard science and attempts to make real predictions about the future based on science and the scientific method is often called "Futurism", or "Speculative Fiction", or just "Hard Sci-fi". Asimov, Clarke, Frederik Pohl, and Poul Anderson have published examples of this.
In the case of Blade Runner, the novel's title was the thesis topic: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", and PKD attempted to explore the realities of what a convincing synthetic human would be like.