Philip K Dick's thoughts on the (then in production) movie are interesting with respect to the book:
>Though he seeks to sell his (Satan's) power fantasies (Blade Runner) he unknowingly promulgates the Third Kerygma: the ecosphere (animals) is now ensouled [...] My god, this movie is the greatest defeat (what was done to the book) and victory (the Tagore kerygma promulgated); the first is ostensible, the latter cryptic.
>Okay: there are other aspects. I didn't sell out to Hollywood: (1) do the novelization or (2) permit the novelization; (3) suppress the original book. And in view of what the film is about, it would have destroyed me for two reasons, not one: (A) the Tagore vision in Androids; (B) the Heinlein power fantasies in Blade Runner. These are antithetical: and they express the opposing kingdom's Christ (Androids) and Satan (Blade Runner). Look what it would have done to me spiritually and psychologically and politically. My soul is safe, and it was in jeopardy. This is why I see victory despite the defeat.
This was about three months before his death

>>25288586
Very surprised how different it was from the movies. As time goes on I lose more respect for film.

i didn't understand the schizo babble the point of the schizo babble about that guy they worshipped or the device that let you see him, but the rest was fine, i especially enjoyed the over fixation with needing to have real life animals

>>25288603
He actually liked it when he saw it. This was just one of his late stage schizo meltdowns.

>>25288586
Better than the movie.

>>25288603
>I didn't sell out to Hollywood
He rejected the $500,000 offer to write the novelization. Based.

>>25288586
I enjoyed it a great deal.
The contrast between how the androids behaved in the privacy of their own company, and how they behaved when next to Deckard (or other retirement officers) spoke to me. I relate his experience to the contemporary experience of interacting on the internet, through social media; or interacting in person with some kind of psychotic or hylic, eg jewish.

Rachel and Pris were the same.