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Re:Digging into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title by cvwright on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:50PM (#36948606)
Sure you’re not thinking of the John Scalzi book with the similar (referential) title?
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Re:Digging into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title by linsomniac on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:17PM (#36950705)
As implied by the name of the story, it was indeed a lot of talk about an electric sheep. Maybe Scalzi has a book that also talks a lot about a sheep, but it definitely fits for this story as well.
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Re:Digging into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title by tomnipotent on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:36PM (#36951260)
> it was indeed a lot of talk about an electric sheep

And I believe one of the things Deckard talked to his wife about was saving up enough to buy a real sheep, which is what leads him to the Tyrell corporation.

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Re:Digging into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title by PNewling on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:52PM (#36977231)
Yeah, this is what I was remembering. It was really more of talk about "keeping up with the jones", but the sheep was the core object of this conversation.
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