Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner Units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corp to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hired Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing partner. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrived in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviewed Mead. Sayo was assassinated and died in Mead’s arms, naming Stix as her killer. Rumiko received orders from Tyrell Corp to either extricate or neutralize two Tyrell scientists from Cheshire. Mead tracked Stix down and tried to convince him to help her find the real killer of Sayo, but Stix fled, believing it to be a trap. So Mead and Rumiko then followed a lead to a deserted theme park and were followed by Sayo’s sister, Alura. There they found the dead body of a Stix clone and were attacked by a gang of Yakuza soldiers…

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. Those who escaped to Earth where hunted by Blade Runner units ordered to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. A rise in the manufacture of bootleg Replicants in the Far East has forced The Tyrell Corp to engage in a costly patent war to ruthlessly protect its unique Intellectual Property. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been dispatched to pursue any copyright infringement by the industrial pirates with extreme prejudice in order to protect and preserve Tyrell’s monopoly. Tokyo, 2015

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. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corporation to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hires Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing sister. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrives in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviews Mead. Meanwhile, Stix witnesses the abduction of a Replicant by members of the Yakuza and gives chase. When the body of Miyuki is discovered, Sayo takes Mead and Rumika to the dead girl’s apartment. However, before Sayo can give any more information, she is shot with an arrow and with her dying breath names Stix as her killer…

RickDeckard has sold his story to a young Turk film director, Urbenton and shooting is scheduled at an orbital station off planet. Watching his past hunt for the replicants being repeated on the set is doing weird things to his mind. As soon as filming is over he is going straight back to Mars where he has been living incognito with Sarah Tyrell. But before corporation loyalists determined to resurrect the vanquished company.

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 . . .

A brand-new comic series based on the award-winning game by Guerrilla. Aloy and Talanah return in a new story set after the events of the game! Nature has reclaimed the planet. Awe-inspiring machines dominate the land, as humanity fights for survival on this new earth. Co-created by one of the writers of Horizon Zero Dawn game Anne Toole.

The Doctor and his travelling companion Alice Obiefune never look for trouble… but somehow it always seems to find them. Most recently, they battled their way out of a reality created to entrap them, and even successfully raised the potentially-genocidal tree creature known as the Sapling into a fully-functional, non-murderous adult, through the power of their joint example. Now it’s time for a little jaunt through time, purely as tourists. Surely nothing can go wrong…

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.

In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in Translation, and other films, she develops a theory of the “Shanghai gesture,” a trope whereby orientalist curios and décor become saturated with mystery. These objects and signs come to bear the burden of explanation for riddles that escape the Western protagonist or cannot be otherwise resolved by the plot. Turning to visual texts from outside Hollywood which actively grapple with the association of the East and the unintelligible—such as Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo: Cina, Wim Wenders’s Notebook on Cities and Clothes, and Sophie Calle’s Exquisite Pain—King suggests alternatives to the paranoid logic of the Shanghai gesture. She argues for the development of a process of cultural “de-translation” aimed at both untangling the psychic enigmas prompting the initial desire to separate the familiar from the foreign, and heightening attentiveness to the internal alterities underlying Western subjectivity.