Timeline - 1984

1980-1981
1982-1983
Films:

• The Terminator
• Runaway

Games:

• The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Text-based game

Books:

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
• Neuromancer
• Rock On
• The Big U

Stories:

• Till Human Voices Wake Us

Events:

• Gardner Dozois, reviewing "hot new writers" for Washington Post, refers to a group called "cyberpunks." The name sticks (Dec 30)
• Four separate instances of robot killings recorded in japan
• The first Robot Killing in the U.S. (July 21st)
• Anastasia Salter born