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Topic: Blade Runner

(Warner Bros.)

8 facts about Philip K. Dick

Katie Dancey-Downs - Mental Floss
Harrison Ford on the set of "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Blade Runner's robot rebellion lesson

Billy J. Stratton
Rutger Hauer (Getty/Tiziana Fabi)

RIP: "Blade Runner" star Rutger Hauer

Matthew Rozsa
(Warner Bros.)

"Blade Runner": Is Deckard a replicant?

Scott Bukatman
Joel Kinnaman in "Altered Carbon" (Netflix)

Altered Carbon: Same future, new title

Melanie McFarland
"Blade Runner 2049" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Why 2017 was a Philip K. Dick dystopia

Keith A. Spencer
(<a href="http://www.trazzler.com/users/travel4u">Billy Gonzalez</a>)

Blade Runner's predictions

Marsha Gordon - The Conversation
Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in "Blade Runner 2049" (Alcon Entertainment)

First look: Blade Runner 2049

Charlie May
(Facebook/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1428518p1.html'> View Apart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Thanks for nothing, Facebook

Paula Young Lee
(Warner Bros.)

Bowie, Elvis & "Blade Runner"

Paula Young Lee
DJ Qualls and Rupert Evans in "The Man in the High Castle" (Amazon Studios)

"They stole Phil Dick's pitch"

Scott Timberg
Scene still from "A.I."

Michael Schulson - Religion Dispatches
Joaquin Phoenix in "Her"

America's android obsession

Noah Berlatsky
(AP)

Associated Press, with additional reporting by Katie McDonough
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Prachi Gupta
(Wikimedia)

Tana Ganeva
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