Facts about Cyberpunk

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   Neuromancer won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, making Gibson the first author to win all three for a debut novel.

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   Philip K. Dick's novels, particularly Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, are recognized as major precursors to cyberpunk's themes of artificial intelligence and dehumanization.

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   Bruce Bethke coined the term 'cyberpunk' as the title of a short story he wrote in 1980, which was published in Amazing Stories in 1983.

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   Cyberpunk as a literary genre emerged in the early 1980s, blending high-tech dystopian settings with countercultural themes of corporate dominance and social marginalization.

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   The cyberpunk literary genre is closely associated with William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer, widely considered a defining work of the subgenre.

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