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Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:57 pm**

Would you enlist?

This is a question I would like to ask everyone that loves the Movie and the Blade Runner Game Setting.

The choice is pretty easy, right? Remain here with your families and live your ordinary lives. Or move to a new world and leave everything here behind yourself.

I know this is very theoretical, as we might not even live anymore when such a question arises. But it does say a lot about the fact of whether you feel comfortable in our current era.

I for myself study at university in central Europe - and should be able to live a happy life here, as long as I don?t get into my own way

Nonetheless, in case I got the chance, I would enlist instantly !

What do you think?

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:12 pm**

Would I? Nah. I love the idea of a dark, rainy depressing future.

Sans the pollution, radioactive fallout, nuclear winter, ect. that might come with it.

But I would never want to live on a colony.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:37 pm**

Immigrating to the Off-World colonies? This was done to escape the unhealthy environment from the result of World War Terminus. "Emigrate or degenerate!"

If I qualified for immigration i'd do so.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:26 am**

I don't think I'd enlist for off-world colonisation due to two reasons:

1. I have read (and didn't particularly care for) the Jeter sequels, and I do NOT like the vision of off-world colonies that he painted; and

2. In Blade Runner, there seems to be quite a bit of emphasis on advertising for the off-world colonisation programme. If that much effort is spent on trying to convince the Earth-bound citizenry to emigrate, life in the colonies couldn't be that favourable.

Posted: **Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:01 pm**

imago wrote: In Blade Runner, there seems to be quite a bit of emphasis on advertising for the off-world colonisation programme. If that much effort is spent on trying to convince the Earth-bound citizenry to emigrate, life in the colonies couldn't be that favourable.

That's advertising! The Europeans were made to believe the Americas were where to make your dreams come true/"...to begin again".

However, I see your view as well. I'm finishing up PKD's book "The Unteleported Man". Written just two years before DODoES, it's where teleporting folks over 18 light years (in 15 minutes) to Newcolonizedland, is the solution for the overcrowded and polluted Earth. However, there is a catch...it's only one way. And you have to take the word of the promoters that it is a world of paradise. I won't say anymore about it...it is an interesting (but not as easy a read compared to DADoES) book.

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:50 pm**

deleted wrote:Would I? Nah. I love the idea of a dark, rainy depressing future.

Sans the pollution, radioactive fallout, nuclear winter, ect. that might come with it.

But I would never want to live on a colony.

Come move out to Denver, CO. You will be welcomed by the ghettos and pollution

Posted: **Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:29 pm**

THX1138 wrote:
deleted wrote:Would I? Nah. I love the idea of a dark, rainy depressing future.

Sans the pollution, radioactive fallout, nuclear winter, ect. that might come with it.

But I would never want to live on a colony.

Come move out to Denver, CO. You will be welcomed by the ghettos and pollution ;)

Nah, s'okay, I love living in New Jersey, home of the chemical playground.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:15 am**

Kipple wrote:I'm finishing up PKD's book "The Unteleported Man". Written just two years before DODoES, it's where teleporting folks over 18 light years (in 15 minutes) to Newcolonizedland, is the solution for the overcrowded and polluted Earth. However, there is a catch...it's only one way. And you have to take the word of the promoters that it is a world of paradise. I won't say anymore about it...it is an interesting (but not as easy a read compared to DADoES) book.

Is the book you are reading, the original version, or the later modified version with the extra 100 added pages & re-titled: "Lies, Inc"?

I've heard that the "extended" version is inferior to the original (i.e., difficult/confusing to read).

/end thread hijack :oops:

OT: Were I unwed & unfettered by any close family, I just might leave for the "Golden land of opportunity & adventure". Otherwise, no. I have to stay right here on good old terra-firma.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:43 am**

BATTY [Roy] wrote:
Kipple wrote:I'm finishing up PKD's book "The Unteleported Man". Written just two years before DODoES, it's where teleporting folks over 18 light years (in 15 minutes) to Newcolonizedland, is the solution for the overcrowded and polluted Earth. However, there is a catch...it's only one way. And you have to take the word of the promoters that it is a world of paradise. I won't say anymore about it...it is an interesting (but not as easy a read compared to DADoES) book.

Is the book you are reading, the original version, or the later modified version with the extra 100 added pages & re-titled: "Lies, Inc"?

I've heard that the "extended" version is inferior to the original (i.e., difficult/confusing to read).

I'm not 100% sure. The version I have is paperback, from 1983. On the cover it boasts, "With the author's previously unpublished original ending". At the time it was the only additional material they found. PKD was to republish the work with the missing material restored. But, died before its' completion. It says that four pages were lost, and it was PKD's intention to recreate those pages for the new edition. Still some sections missing. Hmm...Guess I'll have to breakdown and buy the new edition. It was an interesting read.

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Off-World Colonization: Would you enlist?

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