William S. Burroughs Blade Runner (a movie) First Edition 1979 Blue Wind

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Despite sharing its title with Ridley Scott’s legendary film, this Blade Runner has nothing to do with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Burroughs based his story on Alan E. Nourse’s medical novel The Bladerunner, borrowing the title and expanding it into a bizarre vision of collapsing health care, black-market medicine, and underground survival. The screenplay treatment proved so memorable that its title was later licensed for Scott’s film, forever linking two entirely different works of science fiction.

Published as a paperback original by Blue Wind Press in 1979, this remains one of Burroughs’ more elusive trade publications. Equal parts dystopian satire, medical nightmare, and classic Burroughs experimentation, it has become increasingly desirable among collectors of Beat literature, counterculture publishing, and science fiction history. The striking Michael Patrick Cronan cover design only adds to its appeal.

An increasingly collectible William S. Burroughs first edition whose famous title has overshadowed one of the stranger and more fascinating books of his later career.