Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 193 Pages I’m not sure why they felt the need to have ‘Blade Runner’ in large type, on the cover, with the actual title all tiny and almost like an afterthought. Hmmm… Oh well, I’ve always loved the film art which is funny because I’m not actually a big fan of the film itself (apart from the bit at the end with Roy Baty’s speech). That’s probably a post for another time though ;o) It has been a number of years now since I last read ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’; long enough that I’ve managed to lose my original copy, and possibly two others, in the meantime. It felt like a re-read was long overdue then and one cheap Amazon deal later… Here we are :o) World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft o...

And I was doing so well this week... ;o( As work, and other things, line up to take a bite out of me, I seem be recycling old posts (from even older blogs) a little more regularly than I'm comfortable with but this week was a lot better for that... Until just after I finished work, last night and realised that I was good for pretty much nothing apart from a quick pint at the pub across the road. It was worth it, I didn't realise how much I needed that pint until it was in my hand :o) Where does that leave the blog though? Well, it leaves the blog with an old review of Philip K. Dick's 'Dr. Bloodmoney' that I came across. I (still) haven't read a lot of Philip K Dick's work but 'Dr. Bloodmoney' is my favourite book of his, that I have read, and today, that's all the excuse I needed to recycle the review. The full review is over Here , I've chopped out a chunk of the introduction but not much else, here goes... I love old books, possibly due to...