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Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (1996) is a novel by K. W. Jeter that continues the story of Rick Deckard. It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which in turn was itself a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which Blade Runner was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

A 3-CD set was released in 2007 to coincide with the 5-DVD release to mark the 25th anniversary of the film. It includes the 1994 official CD along with two bonus CDs, both compiled from original material by Vangelis. The second disc includes some previously officially unreleased material, but is still not complete, omitting the Main Title track, for example. The third disc contains new material inspired by Blade Runner.

The delays and poor reproductions of the Blade Runner score led to the production of many bootleg recordings over the years. A bootleg tape surfaced in 1982 at science fiction conventions and became popular given the delay of an official release of the original recordings, and in 1993 Off World Music, Ltd. created a bootleg CD that would prove more comprehensive than Vangelis' official CD in 1994. A disc from Gongo Records features most of the same material, but more of it. The Deck Definitive Edition came about in 2001, with 27 tracks. In 2003, two other bootlegs surfaced, the Esper Edition, closely preceded by Los Angeles, November 2019. The double disc Esper Edition combined tracks from the official release, the Gongo boot and the film itself. Finally 2019 provided a single disc compilation almost wholly consisting of ambient sound from the film, padded out with some sounds from the Westwood game Blade Runner.

A second bootleg Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Blade Runner appeared in 1993 by Off World Music, Ltd. on CD, which was of high quality and actually more comprehensive than the official release by Vangelis in 1994. This release includes a 1939 recording by R&B group The Ink Spots. If I Didn't Care which originally appeared in an early workprint of Blade Runner, but was replaced by the Don Percival cut One More Kiss, Dear in the final version.