Which got me thinking. Blade Runner has an idea that you only really see as a blink and miss it design bit at the beginning, that there's been climate change which has changed the coastlines - I'll have to dig up my Blade Runner theory guide to see whether it was hotter or what.
I think it was a nuclear war that started it though. If I remember the spin-off Jeter novels and the original - that's the significance of the owls and Offworld. Basically the owls were the first species wiped out and the prerequisite for moving to Offworld was not being genetically fucked up by the radiation exposure.
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Ignore me, you said 'Blade Runner' and that's always a cue for me to open my gob...
Date: 2007-09-03 01:20 pm (UTC)I think it was a nuclear war that started it though. If I remember the spin-off Jeter novels and the original - that's the significance of the owls and Offworld. Basically the owls were the first species wiped out and the prerequisite for moving to Offworld was not being genetically fucked up by the radiation exposure.