Blade Runner

William S. Burroughs

Original title: Blade runner

earliest edition we have, 1979 Blue Wind Press, 1979 78 pages

"In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn, are aided by 'blade runners, ' teenagers who smuggle banned surgical instruments past the watchful eyes of fascistic police. The novel-cum-screenplay follows one of these runners duri...

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Editions we hold

Blade Runner edition · 2022 · Tangerine Press · 9781910691908
Blade Runner edition · 2019 · Tangerine Press · 81 pages · 9781910691540
Blade Runner edition · 2019 · Tangerine Press · 88 pages · 9781910691533
Blade Runner paperback · 2012 · Ediciones Escalera · 96 pages · 9788493948931
Blade Runner paperback · 1986 · Blue Wind Press
Blade runner edition · 1979 · Blue Wind Press · 78 pages

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