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The "temporary" title Blade Runner came from William Burrough?s, Blade Runner: A Movie (that was based upon The Bladerunner by Alan E. Nourse).
So, what if Rid Scott couldn?t get the name somehow, the movie would certainly be titled ?Android?, "Mechanismo" or ?Dangerous Days? by Ridley Scott instead of Blade Runner. They didn't work for me neither, and probably a reason why they changed it four times, so I came up with some other suggestions to alternate titles, as a result of some restless self-philosophying.

Future Cop ? his job was his problem (how about the old ?Future Cop? magic?)
2019: A Dangerous Stay
Nexu6 ? more human than human (plural form of Nexus read as ?Nexusix?)
Night of the Nexus (... since BR is very much a night movie)
A Lifelong Retirement
Viewpoint ? more than meets the eye
War of the Replicants
Blush Response
Tales of the Future
Memories of Green (??orange body, green legs??)

just wrote it down
When Androids Dream (? of artificial owls, of a longer life, of music, of a life as a human?)
The Android Alliance (the Nexus-6 combat team escapees. I didn't like ?The off-world Alliance?.)
Hostile Visits
MetroSentinel
Blood Runner (... as it was called sometimes)
The Dream of Electric Sheep (ok, it was late and I was tired, like "the silence of the lambs")

Note: I?m happy about the Blade Runner so I should let it be, but it's really The Coolest Title of a Film Ever.

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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ?
/ Arthur C. Clarke
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More Human Than Human

I'm really digging 'Blush Response'... 'More Human than Human' is good too. Hmm...

Blade Runner is a misleading title, it really is. You certainly get much more than you'd expect from the title when watching the film... which, I think, is the best part.

The Four Year Itch

Replicant Dreams

There's a member here by that name that we haven't heard from in a while, but I always thought it would make a great title for some alternate BR story (or movie).

I like that! Especially if instead of Racheal, she would have been named "Marilyn". (get it??? )

Replicant*

*According to "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon", the word came from David Webb Peoples' daughter. Peoples (Unforgiven) didn't like the word 'android' but called his daughter Risa who was a microbiologist at the time and gave him the word "replicating" the process used to duplicate cells for cloning.