Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 7 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aahna “Ash” Ashina, a former Blade Runner from Los Angeles, is one of the only survivors of a Replicant attack on a remote Off-world mining colony. Ash was protecting young Cleo Selwyn, a.k.a. Rabbit, who was rescued from the slaughter by the Replicant Padraic. Cleo and Padraic accompany the Replicants to Ramanuja Station, a nexus of Off-world trade routes. Ash is found in the colony wreckage by Hythe, a new Blade Runner who carries a warrant for Ash’s arrest for the murder of Cleo’s mother Isobel years before. But rather than take Ash into custody, Hythe offers to reinstate her as a Blade Runner and restores her cybernetic back brace, in return for Ash’s help in tracking down Cleo. Ash accepts.

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 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 2 written by K. W. Jeter and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982 the brilliant science fiction movie Blade Runner was released, and a phenomenon was born. Set in the steel-and-microchip jungle of twenty-first century Los Angeles, this masterpiece re-created our vision of the future, telling the story of Rick Deckard, a ‘blade runner’ who tracks down and executes renegade androids. Now, for the millions of fans of the movie, as well as those coming to the saga for the first time, K. W. Jeter’s stylish and sophisticated new novel reenters that seedy, high-tech world and opens a new chapter of thrilling, nonstop, futuristic suspense. This time Deckard himself becomes both hunter and hunted in a race to prove his own humanity by tracking down the most elusive and dangerous android of all . . .

Download or read book Automatic Eve written by Rokuro Inui and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mighty shogunate ruling the land from Tempu Castle. An imperial line with strict female succession. Caught between these two immense powers, the sprawling city of Tempu is home to many wonders—not least a superhuman technological achievement in the form of a beautiful automaton known as Eve. When a secret that threatens to shake the imperial line intersects with the mystery of Eve’s creation, events are set in motion that soon race toward a shocking conclusion. A new, astonishingly inventive science fantasy masterpiece of historic proportions. -- VIZ Media

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 2029 7 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tryell 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. 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, 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 at the Los Angeles seawall construction site, 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. Learning of her investigation, Yotun had Ash abducted before launching an all-out attack upon Los Angeles, destroying the newly constructed seawall, and killing dozens of the city’s political and corporate elite. Yotun subjected Ash to a drug-induced brainwashing process before submersing her in one of his Replicant rejuvenation tanks. Members of the Replicant underground launched an attack on a power station to win the trust of Yotun and gave him Freysa as a ‘good-will’ gesture. While Yotun took Freysa with him on a mission he called, “the most important one,” the others, now inside Yotun’s underground lair, set out to locate and rescue Ash. Reviving her from the tank, Ash was shocked to discover that her crippling back disability had somehow been cured…

Download or read book Blade Runner 2049 The Storyboards written by Sam Hudecki and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blade Runner 2049: The Storyboards is the only book presenting all of the storyboards from the film. In 1982, film audiences experienced a bold new depiction of the future with the ground-breaking Blade Runner, which was fundamental in establishing the still-vibrant Cyberpunk movement. With the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve further explored that unique "future noir" world, this time following a young blade runner whose discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard--the protagonist of the first film--who's been missing for some thirty years. Blade Runner 2049: The Storyboards is a celebration of the rarely-seen artwork that was key in building the harsh, yet strangely beautiful, environments in the film. This remarkable book presents a fresh look at Blade Runner 2049, including scenes that were later altered or cut out entirely, along with new, in-context commentary from storyboard artists Sam Hudecki and Darryl Henley throughout.

Download or read book Blade Runner Origins 7 written by Mellow Brown and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 31 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. Now, on Earth, the Nexus 4 Replicants have been adapted for societal elites to own for industry and service work. But Tyrell continues to experiment with further enhancements – because progress stops for no man. After the apparent suicide of Dr. Lydia Kine – a Tyrell Corporation bioengineer – was determined to be a murder committed by a Replicant, LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux is tracking the presumed killer: a Nexus 5 prototype. The Nexus 5 has been “awakening” some Replicants, causing them to leave their positions of servitude in pursuit of autonomy. Cal has followed this trail of rebellion to Sector-6b, the slums of Los Angeles – a home from which his badge has exiled him – where he learned of the true identity of the escaped Nexus 5… his sister: Nia Moreaux.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2039 7 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by the Tyrell Corporation for use Off-world. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture was prohibited, and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. Niander Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of Replicants who obey. Twenty years ago, in 2019, Ash spared the Replicant Isobel Selwyn, a replica of industrialist Alexander Selwyn’s wife. Together with Alexander’s human daughter, Cleo, Isobel escaped to the Off-world colonies. In 2039, Cleo returned to Earth and enlisted Ash’s help in finding her missing surrogate mother whom she believed had returned to Earth. Convinced that Cleo held the secret to Replicant fertility, Wallace sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to hunt her down. However, Ash and Cloe managed to escape Luv’s pursuit and set off cross country to San Francisco, determined to locate Isobel. Thwarted, Luv returned to Wallace who teamed her up with a new Replicant, created by Niander from Ash’s DNA, and the two resumed their hunt for Ash and Cleo. While en route, Ash and Cleo were stranded by a sandstorm and attacked by a biker gang who shot and critically injured Cleo. Only the intervention of an elderly farmer saved her life. In the morning, following the storm, as Ash was preparing to leave, the farmer revealed himself to be a Replicant who had survived an encounter with Blade Runner Ash 20 years previously.

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 Volume 1 Los Angeles written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rain-soaked dystopian future of Los Angeles comes a new saga set in the world of Blade Runner. LAPD’s best Blade Runner and detective, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, has been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon Alexander Selwyn – a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash’s search will take her on a journey deep into the crime-ridden underbelly of Los Angeles – a slowly decaying megacity – as she uncovers a terrible secret and a desperate conspiracy that forces her to confront her own hatred for Replicants – the synthetic humans – that she hunts and kills with such vengeance. Collects Blade Runner 2019 #1-4. “Blade Runner 2019 hits the ground running in what looks to be a must-read new entry in the franchise.” – AIPT! “A worthy new Blade Runner tale with a new, very interesting lead character.” – Newsarama

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 1 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 33 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. 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. Los Angeles, 2019

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 336 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 Blade Runner 2019 Volume 2 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, the Blade Runner known as Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina rescued Cleo Selwyn, daughter of business tycoon Alexandra Selwyn, from a plot to give the girl to the Tyrell corporation for genetic experimentation. Ash and Cleo escaped Los Angeles and disappeared. Now, seven years later and living under assumed identities, Ash and Cleo have resurfaced on one of the Off-world mining colonies. But Cleo’s father has never stopped looking for them, sending out dozens of bounty hunters and search parties to kill Ash and bring his daughter home. Now, following a bloody Replicant mutiny, Ash and Cleo have become separated and a ruthless new Blade Runner called Hythe has Ash dead in her sights. Collects Blade Runner 2019 #5-8. “10 out of 10. A must-read title.” – Bleeding Cool

Download or read book Blade Runner 2019 Artist s Edition written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new saga set in the instantly recognizable, neo-noir world of Blade Runner. The LAPD’s top Blade Runner, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, has been assigned to investigate the sudden disappearance of the wife and daughter of powerful business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn – a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash’s search will take her on a dark, violent journey deep into the crime-ridden underbelly of an alternative, rain-soaked future Los Angeles, where she uncovers a horrifying secret and a desperate conspiracy… Showcasing the breathtaking black and white artwork of Andres Guinaldo, this exclusive artist’s edition presents issues 1-4 of the smash-hit Blade Runner 2019 series in a truly unique way. Includes never-before-seen concept sketches, issue thumbnails, and an exclusive interview with Guinaldo, conducted by Blade Runner 2019 writers, Michael Green and Mike Johnson.

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 2039 6 written by Mike Johnson and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by the Tyrell Corporation for use Off-world. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture was prohibited, and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. Niander Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of Replicants who obey. A Replicant Underground survives, led by the former combat model Freysa and her human partner Aahna Ashina, known as Ash, formerly a Blade Runner. Twenty years ago, in 2019, Ash spared the Replicant Isobel Selwyn, a replica of industrialist Alexander Selwyn’s wife. Together with Alexander’s human daughter Cleo, Isobel escaped to the Off-world colonies. Searching for the late Alexander Selwyn’s research into Replicant physiology, Niander Wallace sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to hunt down both Cleo and Isobel. Believing that Isobel holds the secret to Replicant fertility, Wallace ordered Luv to capture the girl at any cost and to kill anyone who comes into contact with her. Ash discovered that a computer disc given to her by Alexander’s former Replicant bodyguard Hythe contained the information Wallace is looking for. Luv tracked them down, however Ash and Cleo managed to escape and set out to find Freysa, hoping she could help them locate Isobel. Luv returned to Wallace who introduced her to a new Replicant created from Ash’s DNA, codenamed ‘Rash’, and the two of them resumed the hunt for Ash and Cleo. Together with the runaway Replicant, Lexi, Ash and Cleo set off for San Francisco in an old pickup truck, but were attacked en route by a biker gang who shot and gravely injured Cleo…