Time to die. I also like K. W. Jeter and I have read most of his books. Like Ridley Scott, Jeter gives his books a dark feel, where the characters are complicated and the world is gritty. After reading the book, however, I am not entirely satisified. In the Blade Runner movie, the images that Ridley Scott builds, of the dark rainy Los Angeles of the future, allows the viewer to suspend belief and not examine the plot too closely.
Books are different.
And perhaps one of the problems with Blade Runner 2 is the plot burden that Jeter accepts. He attempts to fill many of the plot holes that I had not previously noticed in the movie, while still carrying his own plot forward. Since Jeter devotes space to filling in the Blade Runner plot, there is fragmentation between Jeter's story and the original Blade Runner story. Jeter's story suffers and is more simplistic as a result. Characters from the original Blade Runner story reappear in Blade Runner 2, not always to good effect.