January 8 in Fiction

Movie Blade Runner (2017)

1/8/2016

January 8, 2016 is the incept date of Roy Batty, the Nexus-6 combat replicant who leads the rogue replicants in their desperate quest for more life. His four-year lifespan expires during the film's climax, when — rather than killing the blade runner hunting him — he delivers the 'Tears in Rain' soliloquy and dies peacefully: 'All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.'

Literature Middlesex (2002)

1/8/1960  · Jeffrey Eugenides

On January 8, 1960, Calliope Stephanides is born in Detroit to a Greek-American family, delivered on a snowy night that her grandmother Desdemona reads as a sign. The narrator, Cal, later reveals he was born intersex, and this January birthday is the starting point of a memoir that reaches back to 1922 Smyrna — tracing the genetic secret that traveled across two continents and three generations to manifest in him.