Voir aussi : réplicant

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(ca. 1981). Terme créé pour le film Blade Runner par David Peoples ou sa fille.

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  1. (Science-fiction) (Univers de Blade Runner) Réplicant.
    •  Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase — a being virtually identical to a human — known as a Replicant.
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      Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.
       
      Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. — (Hampton Fancher, David Peoples, introduction du film Blade Runner, 1982)

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