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TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").

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