Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1345410 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-01
• Released on: 1996-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 321 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Is it real or is it a replicant? Nothing is what it seems in Jeter's second sequel to Ridley Scott's classic SF film, Blade Runner, itself based on Philip K. Dick's classic novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Here, Jeter casts doubt on the identity of just about every character who appeared in either the film or the previous sequel, The Edge of Human (1995). The action opens in the orbital studio Outer Hollywood, where a video is being made of Rick Deckard's original pursuit of the rogue replicants, with Deckard acting as technical advisor. After both a replicant and Deckard's former partner are murdered, Deckard storms off the set to head back to Mars, where he lives in squalor with Sarah Tyrell, former heir to the defunct Tyrell company, the original creators of all replicants. Sarah, however, out of her mind with bitterness and boredom, plans to murder Deckard upon his return. Fortunately for Deckard, she is whisked back to Earth by two disciples of her dead uncle, the evil genius Eldon Tyrell. There, she is convinced to reenter the time-warping derelict starship on which she was born, in search of information about her past. If this sounds confusing, it is. Reality could not be trusted in either Scott's film or the Dick novel, and matters have gotten only more complex since Jeter took over the franchise. Readers unfamiliar with the story's previous incarnations will have a hard time figuring out what's going on here. Blade Runner aficionados, however, will enjoy the many twists and turns, suddenly revealed secrets and cameo appearances by characters who died in earlier installments of the series.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Jeter follows up his Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (Bantam/Spectra, 1995) with the continuing saga of Rick Deckard, created by the late Philip K. Dick and immortalized on film by Ridley Scott. While consulting on a film about his life, the weary android-hunter Deckard becomes embroiled in a clandestine delivery of a talking briefcase to insurgent replicant androids and the discovery of a ten-year-old girl who is the key to the Tyrell Corporation's slogan, "More human than human." Jeter captures Dick's original darkness and sends his characters through their dismal world with aplomb. Highly recommended for sf collections and for fans of Dick's books and the film.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
In the orbiting studios of Outer Hollywood, Rick Deckard is involved in the production of a movie based on his exploits as a blade runner in Los Angeles. But his brief entry into the everyday world is cut short when violence and death once again enfold him. From Mars to Scapa Flow, Deckard and his fellows in the dark and somber world of Blade Runner film and books--must struggle with unseen forces, tangled skeins of intrigue, and confusion. Deckard himself must sort through replicants, enigmatic difficulties with interstellar colonists, the thought-to-be-defunct Tyrell Corporation, and a mysterious child who seems to hold the keys to all the puzzles. In the newest continuation of the cult movie, Jeter extends his own exploration of the nature of humanity. In a splendid tribute to the work of Philip K. Dick, Jeter captures the tenor of Dick's vision and augments it with his own ingenuity. Dennis Winters

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader
I suppose you could say this is bleak and getting bleaker. Replicant Night starts off with making a movie of Deckard's replicant hunting adventures, of all things.

Bizarre. Then there is the whole Tyrell woman love me or kill me scenario.

Presumably it is trying to bring into question whether anyone in the book, or even the reader, has any idea what is going on.

Series killer
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.

A Really Bad Read
There is little to recommend for this book. The only way I finished reading it was by reading only the first and last sentences of a paragraph. Near the end of the book, I was only reading the first and last paragraph of a chapter.

This book is really bad.