Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 12 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having successfully helped Cleo and her surrogate Replicant mother Isobel escape Off-world, Blade Runner Aahna Ashina, ‘Ash’, has returned to Los Angeles to hunt down business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn. While investigating a possible lead, Ash was apprehended by the LAPD, but before she could be taken into custody she was freed by members of the Replicant Resistances who spirited her away to a remote farmhouse where she met their leader, Freysa. While Freysa repaired Ash’s damaged backbrace, the farmhouse was attacked by Selwyn’s own personal Blade Runner, Hythe, who had tracked Ash to the farmhouse following a tipoff. A gun battle broke out, giving Freysa and Ash time to escape back to the city. There, Freysa revealed that the Replicant Resistance had tracked down Selwyn’s location. With her backbrace fully repaired, Ash set off back to Selwyn’s Santa Barbara mansion, to find him waiting for her with a squad of Hythe Replicants…

Download or read book Blade Runner 2029 1 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution to the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Replicants who escaped and returned to Earth were hunted by special police squads – Blade Runner Units – with orders to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, radical elements with the Replicant Underground detonate an EMP device over Los Angeles, destroying Tyrell Corporation’s Nexus databases, and making it easier for escaped Replicants to resettle on Earth. Soon, all Replicants are banned and the Tyrell Corporation declares bankruptcy. In 2027, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, a former Blade Runner rejoined the department to hunt down fugitive Replicants. Her superiors are unaware that her loyalties are divided.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2029 10 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor. Those who escaped to Earth were hunted by Blade Runner units ordered to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, a Replicant attack on the Tyrell Corporation forced the company into bankruptcy and erased all records of existing Replicants. The surviving Nexus 8 models disappeared with the help of the Replicant underground. Many Replicants remained in servitude. In 2027, Aahna “Ash” Ahsina, a former Blade Runner, rejoined the department to hunt down fugitive Replicants. Her superiors are unaware that her loyalties are divided. Her lover, Freysa, is a leader in the Replicant Underground. While investigating a report of a rogue Replicant, Ash discovered that a Nexus 6 Replicant, Yotun, whom she had failed to retire 12 years previously, had somehow outlived his expiration date and had become the leader of a Replicant guerrilla army. After capturing Ash, Yotun ordered his army to launch an all-out terrorist attack upon Los Angeles, destroying the newly constructed seawall, killing the city’s political and corporate elite, and ordering all Replicants in the city to revolt against their masters, before taking over the LAPD Tower and setting it ablaze. Freysa seemingly joined Yotun’s crusade in an effort to stop him, however, he blinded her in one eye and left her to die when he discovered her subterfuge. Escaping from Yotun’s clutches, Ash raced to rescue her lover from the burning building. Now reunited, Ash and Freysa have set off to find Yotun and bring him down. Meanwhile, Yotun, having incredibly outlived his initial inception date, has started to succumb to the ravages of time and is using the blood of his loyal supporters to stave off his impending demise…

Download or read book Blade Runner 2029 12 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor. Those who escaped to Earth were hunted by Blade Runner Units, ordered to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, a Replicant attack on the Tyrell Corporation forced the company into bankruptcy and erased all records of existing Replicants. The surviving Nexus 8 models disappeared with the help of the Replicant Underground. Many Replicants remained in servitude, In 2027, Aahna “Ash” Ashina, rejoined the Blade Runner department, although her superiors are unaware that her lover, Freysa, is a leader in the Replicant Underground. The Replicant rebellion instigated by Yotun, a Nexus 6 Replicant who somehow lived beyond his four-year lifespan, has failed. The rejuvenating elixir that Yotun used to enhance his followers has failed too, resulting in their mass deaths. Now Yotun himself has started to succumb to the ravages of time, and even the regular blood transfusions from his loyal supporters no longer work. Convinced that an old diary of Eldon Tyrell holds the key to his survival, Yotun has set off to Eldon’s birthplace in search of a mysterious box that he believes holds the secret to extending his life. Meanwhile, Ash has been outed as a double-agent working for the Replicant Underground by Blade Runner Marlowe and arrested by the LAPD.

Download or read book Future Noir The Making of Blade Runner written by Paul M. Sammon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 Volume 3 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles, 2026. Ex Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina returns to Los Angeles to settle the score with agribusiness tycoon Alexander Selwyn who had sold his daughter, Cleo, to Eldon Tyrell for genetic experimentation. In a city still suffering from the effects of the Black Out, Ash – once the huntress – is now the hunted, as the LAPD, the underworld, and a rogue group of Replicants search the city looking for her. With no friends and a price on her head, nowhere is safe for Ash. She is forced to turn for help from an unlikely source as she searches for a lead to Selwyn and a bloody reckoning… Collects Blade Runner 2029 #9-12. “An utterly immersive experience… an emotionally engaging story, and exquisite artwork. Don’t miss out on this one.” – Flickering Myth

Download or read book Blade Runner Origins 12 written by K. Perkins and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. On Earth, Tyrell continued to experiment with further enhancements – because progress stops for no man. LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux has discovered that the suicide of Dr. Lydia Kine was actually an elaborate ruse constructed by the Tyrell Corp engineer so she could live freely as a Replicant named Asa. Dr. Kine’s latest experiment – the escaped Nexus 5 prototype – initially received the blame for her death, however Cal has discovered the truth – the identity of the Nexus 5’s host consciousness: his sister, Nia Moreaux. More existentially advanced than the others, Nia has been “awakening” some Replicants in the slums of Los Angeles, causing them to leave their positions of servitude in pursuit of autonomy. Tyrell Corp executive, Ilora Stahl has been charged with the Nexus 5’s capture, and she will stop at nothing to protect her job and the company’s brand in spite of the growing chaos. Two months have passed since Ilora launched an all-out attack against the Sector-6B slums and Cal finally confronted his sister Nia Moreaux, investigator of he Replicant uprising that lead to the Battle for Sector 6B…

Download or read book Blade Runner 2039 Volume 3 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ASH SAGA CONCLUDES! Twenty years ago, Aahna “Ash” Ashina was the LAPD’s most efficient and deadly Blade Runner, hunting Replicants with a zeal unrivalled. Now, two decades later, Ash lives as a fugitive helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth. Convinced that the secret of Replicant reproduction lies hidden in the DNA of Cleo Selwyn, a young woman whom Ash helped to escape back in 2019, Niander Wallace has unleashed his Replicant protegee, Luv – LAPD’s first Replicant Blade Runner, and a clone of Ash in her prime to bring them to him dead or alive. For twenty years, Ash has been running. Today, she stops… Collects Blade Runner 2039 #9-12 “Johnson’s plotting, pacing and dialog are excellent, and Guinaldo’s art is outstanding.” – Comical Opinions.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 3 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina of the Los Angeles Police Department has been assigned to investigate the disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon, Alexandra Selwyn. Using data retrieved from Isobel’s abandoned Spinner, Ash followed Isobel’s trail and found herself confronting a replicant who had genetically ‘aged himself up’ as an old man to avoid detection. Ash shot and wounded him after he attacked her, but he was still able to escape, telling Ash, as he fled, to: “Ask Alexander Selwyn why he wants his daughter dead.” Meanwhile, Isobel and Cleo have made contact with an underworld community that lives beneath the streets of Los Angeles and its leader, Malik, who also runs an underground railway that helps Replicants to escape. After Ash reported back to Selwyn on the progress of her investigation, her own Spinner was attacked in mid-air by another craft, which sent her crashing and burning towards the streets of the city below…

Download or read book Blade Runner 2039 12 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution to the Nexus phase – creating artificial beings virtually identical to humans – known as Replicants. Superior in strength and agility, the Replicants functioned primarily as Off-world slave labor or in hazardous, high-collateral combat situations. After Replicants were declared illegal on Earth, special police operatives – called Blade Runners – had orders to kill or ‘retire’ any trespassers upon detection. Twenty years ago, Detective Aahna Ashina of the Los Angeles Police Department was one of the first to qualify for the assignment. Her colleagues called her Ash. She was the best of them. Today, her saga will end.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 Volume 1 written by Mike Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blade Runner Origins Volume 3 Burning written by K. Perkins and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles, 2009. Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl has instigated a brutal purge of LA’s Sector 6-B, in an attempt to kill a rogue Nexus 5 prototype who is responsible for triggering an uprising of Nexus 4 Replicants. Now, with the sector ablaze, LAPD detective Cal Moreaux has joined forces with a former Tyrell Corp scientist, and a band of Replicant rebels and human sympathizers to stop the prototype and save the streets he and his sister once called home. Collects Blade Runner: Origins #9-12. “A series that perfectly captures the spirit of the Blade Runner universe.” – Comic Book Resources

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 Volume 2 written by Michael Green and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blade Runner 2049 written by Timothy Shanahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning, philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned chapters by a roster of international contributors, this fascinating collection explores philosophical questions that abound in Blade Runner 2049, including: What distinguishes the authentically "human" person? How might natality condition one’s experience of being-in-the-world? How might shared memories feature in the constitution of personal identities? What happens when created beings transcend the limits intended in their design? What (if anything) is it like to be a hologram? Can artificial beings participate in genuinely romantic relationships? How might developing artificial economics impact our behaviour as prosumers? What are the implications of techno-human enhancement in an era of surveillance capitalism? Including a foreword by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, gender studies, and conceptual issues in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Download or read book More Than Machines written by Laura Voss and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.

Download or read book Film Reboots written by Herbert Daniel Herbert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices - remakes, sequels, series - Film Reboots is the first edited collection to specifically focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary. Examining such notable examples as Batman, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek, among others, this collection contends with some of the most important features of contemporary film and media culture today.

Download or read book Retrofitting Blade Runner written by Judith Kerman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, especially the film's relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film's implications as a thought experiment provide a starting point for important thinking about the moral issues implicit in a hypertechnological society. Yet its importance in the history of science fiction and science fiction film rests equally on it mythically and psychologically resonant creation of compelling characters and an exciting story within a credible science fiction setting. These essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions. Contributors discuss the film's psychological and mythic patterns, important political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.