No, not the Harrison Ford one... https://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-William-S-Burroughs/dp/0912652780 "In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn, are aided by 'blade runners,' teenagers who smuggle banned surgical instruments past the watchful eyes of fascistic police. The novel-cum-screenplay follows one of these runners during the course of a race riot and the transfer of instruments between embattled doctors. Above the drama in the streets of New York is a world 'taken over by hang-glider and autogyro gangs, mountaineers and steeplejacks. A sky boy steps off his penthouse into a parachute on guide wires that drop him to a street-level landing...Meanwhile, released animals and reptiles from the zoo and freed fish from the aquarium have control of the rovers and subways. The prose flashes with Burrough's own brand of outrageousness and fantasy." -- L.A. Herald Examiner July 29. 1979
Which (from what I gather) was an attempt to turn this book into a screenplay of sorts... https://www.amazon.com/Bladerunner-Prologue-Books-Alan-Nourse-ebook/dp/B00GTUYOV6
The same studio that had optioned the film rights to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was very interested in turning it into a move, however, they hated the name. At the same time, they had the rights to Bladerunner, something they didn't want to make a movie about. So, they took the name Bladerunner and slapped it onto Androids. The name made no sense in the context of the story, but, it was shorter and sounded cooler.
Now that it reminded me of this, here's a Wikipedia article about the novel Bladerunner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner
