Just started reading "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. I'm not sure if I ever actually read it before but the start, at least, was familiar. Wonderful writing and amazingly coherent #cyberpunk depiction.
I'd say Bladerunner owes more to Neuromancer than "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", by Philip K Dick, on which the story is based.
@johnribbon Electric Sheep is (like all of Dick's work) cerebral rather than visual; whereas Gibson writes the future aesthetic.
So, the soul of #cyberpunk is arguably Dick but the look is post-Gernsback via Sterling, Headroom, and Gibson.
@johnribbon I got really into anything #cyberpunk just after Gibson's Sprawl series was released. But, going back to many of the books from that time, the gripping-to-superficial ratio is quite high.
@DaveHiggins That's a nice division. I must check out some of those other authors.
Haven't really been reading much cyberpunk recently, preferring Dick's proto-cyberpunk, but otherwise weird and twisted psycho-burnout futures and earlier classic sci-fi in general.