True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)

Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It's completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn't end in a nuclear war.