Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night

Cover of the first edition
Author	K. W. Jeter
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Blade Runner
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Spectra
Publication date	October 1, 1996
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	321
ISBN	0-553-09983-3
OCLC	34669233
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3560.E85 B59 1996
Preceded by	The Edge of Human
Followed by	Eye and Talon

Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night is a science fiction novel by an American writer K. W. Jeter, first published in 1996. It is a continuation of Jeter's novel Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was itself a sequel to both the film Blade Runner and the novel upon which the film was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?^[1]

Plot introduction

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his days as a blade runner. He finds himself drawn into a mission on behalf of the replicants he was once assigned to kill. Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding the beginnings of the Tyrell Corporation is being exposed.

Characters

• Rick Deckard, a former bounty hunter, now working as a film consultant
• Sarah Tyrell, the niece of Eldon Tyrell; she has been living on Mars since the events of Blade Runner 2
• Anson Tyrell, Sarah's father
• Ruth Tyrell, Sarah's mother
• Rachael, a ten-year-old girl
• Roy Batty, the human template for the replicant Deckard fought in the previous novel. That replicant's personality now resides inside Deckard's briefcase.
• Sebastien, a dehydrated deity
• Urbenton, director of the movie Blade Runner on which Rick Deckard is a consultant
• Dave Holden, Deckard's former police partner.

Film adaptation

The plot element of a replicant giving birth served as the basis for the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049.^{[2][circular reporting?]}