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Summary: From the Past and the Into the Future
Review: All the characters were familiar and that can be a big draw in reading a work in a series. There's a feeling of comfort since you know them, even if you don't particularly find them attractive. The opening will be confusing if you don't know the characters and maybe will be anyway. It jumps from a scene being filmed to the action and back again. In the end you see the same cast as the original movie doing pretty much the same stuff as before. I found the book to be tedious as he retold old scenes from the movie and wove them into the new plot. I would rather have had new material covering new ground entirely, but that is a personal preference. I did not finish this book completely and probably will not do so.
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Summary: From the Past and the Into the Future
Review: All the characters were familiar and that can be a big draw in reading a work in a series. There's a feeling of comfort since you know them, even if you don't particularly find them attractive. The opening will be confusing if you don't know the characters and maybe will be anyway. It jumps from a scene being filmed to the action and back again. In the end you see the same cast as the original movie doing pretty much the same stuff as before. I found the book to be tedious as he retold old scenes from the movie and wove them into the new plot. I would rather have had new material covering new ground entirely, but that is a personal preference. I did not finish this book completely and probably will not do so.
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Summary: Series killer
Review: 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.
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Summary: Strong Scifi!!!
Review: In a smooth fashion, Jeter combines elements of the film "Bladerunner" with some of the concepts of Philip K. Dick. This is the third part of a planned trilogy, and is filled with action and interesting characters. The Deckard/Sarah relationship goes in a direction you might not expect, leading up to an intersting conclusion. Things are left open for the third book and I for one can't wait!
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Summary: Caveat: I like Ridley Scott more than PKD
Review: Jeter is very good at incorporating noir into sci fi, and that is certainly true in both Replicant Night and Edge of Human. The novels follow the storyline of the film, but in flavor, if not in plot, are more similar to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Unfortunately, I'm more of a Ridley Scott fan. I found Jeter's portrayal of the characters wholly unsympathetic. That's pretty much par for Jeter (or Dick for that matter), but it really bothered me in this case. About the only exception was Sebastian, but even he was too much like his dim-witted counterpart in DADOES. I also wished he'd gotten in the heads of the replicant characters more. I really would like to have known what was going through Rachael's head as her life slipped away, but Jeter doesn't give her any voice at all. When all is said and done, though, I suspect I'd also have problems if a more cinematic author had written the Blade Runner novels. Though they might be truer to Scott's vision, they would leave out too much of Dick's.
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Summary: Caveat: I like Ridley Scott more than PKD
Review: Jeter is very good at incorporating noir into sci fi, and that is certainly true in both Replicant Night and Edge of Human. The novels follow the storyline of the film, but in flavor, if not in plot, are more similar to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Unfortunately, I'm more of a Ridley Scott fan. I found Jeter's portrayal of the characters wholly unsympathetic. That's pretty much par for Jeter (or Dick for that matter), but it really bothered me in this case. About the only exception was Sebastian, but even he was too much like his dim-witted counterpart in DADOES. I also wished he'd gotten in the heads of the replicant characters more. I really would like to have known what was going through Rachael's head as her life slipped away, but Jeter doesn't give her any voice at all. When all is said and done, though, I suspect I'd also have problems if a more cinematic author had written the Blade Runner novels. Though they might be truer to Scott's vision, they would leave out too much of Dick's.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: 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.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: 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.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: 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.
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Summary: Let the movie go, already
Review: K.W. Jeter is an exceptional and creative author. His first sequel to BR, The Edge of Human, was almost flawlessly Phildickian and definitely fascinating. That said, Replicant Night is a letdown. The creativity is still there (many new and interesting concepts are explored), but the ponderous reiteration every other chapter reads like a marketing decision: "Now, K.W., people only read one chapter per night. Don't want to lose them. Also, Dick was always so vague. Make sure you spell things out and hammer them in. After all, we can't expect commercial success if the reader has to think, can we?" Apart from the dead horse syndrome, still twitching in the form of "who's really human?", and the silly role-reversal device of Earth vs. Anywhere Else, Jeter has no qualms about re-enacting exact scenes from the movie in EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE WAY, usually with re-incarnations of primary characters. In fact, new characters never seem to last very long. Break out of the cycle, dude. Please.
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