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Philip K. Dicks Novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", was the adapted book for the Blade Runner movie and one of the first Cyberpunk Genre books at that time.
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The girl who was plugged in was published in New Dimensions III and is commonly noted as proto-cyberpunk.
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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was a pivitol point in the Cyberpunk movement. It took the futuristic, cybernetic and gritty dystopian parts of Cyberpunk and put it into a neat package.
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William Gibson's second novel in his sprawl trilogy was "Burning Chrome". Continuing the cyberpunk phase, and received Nebula award in 1983
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Bruce Bethke publishes his short story "Cyberpunk in Amazing Science Fiction Stories; making it the first use of the term "Cyberpunk".
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The term cyberspace is first coined in William Gibson debut novel to his sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer.
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Time magazine releases their Cyberpunk cover issue. The general public are now informed about the Cyberpunk movement, most never having heard the term before.