Philip K. Dick

[7] Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this high-concept futuristic actioner about a blue-collar man who pays to have memories of a Mars vacation implanted in his memory — the next-best thing, and a cheaper alternative, to actually going there. But the procedure ends up triggering deeply buried memories of his time as a freedom-fighter on Mars, fighting against an evil corporation who owns and controls the …

[10] Blade Runner tackles one of science fiction’s biggest questions:  what makes us human? The story by Philip K. Dick is a sci-fi allegory for soldiers returning home with post-traumatic stress, wrapped in the veneer of a neo-noir detective story — all in all, a beguiling blend of genres and content. Harrison Ford plays the detective, Dekkard, a world-weary loner hired to hunt androids (here …