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Philip K. Dicks Novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', was the basis for the Blade Runner movie and one of the first Cyberpunk genre books at that time.
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Directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who "retire" (kill) them
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Bruce Bethke coined the term cyberpunk in 1980 for his short story "Cyberpunk," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others
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The first book in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy 'Neuromancer' was the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.
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Time magazine releases their Cyberpunk cover issue. The article defines and clarfies the cyberpunk movement and makes the general public aware of it, most never having heard the term before.
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