petervidani:

&ldquo;The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. It hadn&rsquo;t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps &mdash; just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that&rsquo;s just life &mdash; it&rsquo;s not science fiction, it&rsquo;s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.&rdquo;
&mdash; William Gibson, on Blade Runner
