He went to
Buena Park High School. Jeter attended college at
California State University, Fullerton where he became friends with
James P. Blaylock and
Tim Powers, and through them,
Philip K. Dick. Jeter was actually the inspiration for "Kevin" in Dick's semi-autobiographical novel,
Valis. Many of Jeter's books focus on the subjective nature of reality in a way reminiscent of Dick's. Philip K. Dick enthusiastically recommended Jeter's early
cyberpunk novel,
Dr. Adder. Due to its violent and sexually provocative content, it took Jeter around ten years to find a publisher for it. Jeter would also coin the term
steampunk, in reference to cyberpunk in a letter to
Locus in April 1987, in order to describe the steam-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. Jeter's steampunk novels are
Morlock Night,
Infernal Devices, and its sequels
Fiendish Schemes (2013) and
Grim Expectations (2017). As well as his own original novels, K. W. Jeter has written three authorized novel sequels to the critically acclaimed 1982 motion picture
Blade Runner, which was adapted from
Philip K. Dick's novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ==Bibliography==