In 1994 Marina Warner lectured on Six Myths of Our Time
- in the section Boys Will Be Boys, talking about popular myths, there is this gem:
"... Blade Runner. The film -- and the book -- touch a live contemporary nerve when they imagine that the robotic monsters look just like humans, that their nature isn't apparent -- neither to us, nor to them."
Link: https://archive.org/details/managingmonsters0000warn