Randall decided that he would publically go without treatment for his severe diabetes, sparking the Health Care Riots.
The naturists follow in the footsteps of Randall Morganson, or Randall the Martyr. This practice resulted in the uprising of a movement called Naturism. All of this is of course enforced by a medical/police organization called Health Control. This has created a thriving medical black market full of doctor’s moonlighting as illegal ‘street docs’, medical supply smugglers called blade runners, and organized crime bosses like Billy Gimp’s source, Parrot. The rationale behind this policy is to protect genetic worthiness and was created by the Eugenic Control laws. In the world that these characters inhabit, the price of medical treatment has become sterilization, which as you can imagine, has the side effect of making most people not want to get medical treatment from a hospital. John Long, who is a doctor who runs an illegal medical practice in addition to his more legitimate medical work at Hospital No. So what is The Blade Runner about? The two primary protagonists of the book are Billy Gimp, who has a club foot, and Dr. Shortly thereafter, the rights to the title Blade Runner were obtained for Scott’s film, and the rest is history. Hampton Fancher, Blade Runner’s screenwriter, had a copy of the Burroughs’ adaptation and suggested the title. In 1979, when the screen-treatment hadn’t been produced, it was published under the title Blade Runner (a movie). Burroughs, the often cited influence of many cyberpunk authors, was commissioned to write a screen-treatment of Nourse’s book. The short version of how Blade Runner acquired its title from this unrelated source, is that William S. So Nourse’s The Blade Runner and Scott’s Blade Runner share the common thread of dystopia, and nothing more.
Nourse’s 1974 book, The Blade Runner, the story of a street doc and his trusty medical supply smuggler, also known as a blade runner for smuggling scalpels, that have to prevent a plague and reform a broken health care system in a dystopian future. When you utter the words ‘blade runner’ in any conversation, the average person’s mind immediately jumps to Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, Blade Runner, especially in the wake of the release of Blade Runner 2049. This iconic title originally belonged to a novel that bears almost no resemblance to the film that carries’s its namesake.
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