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As this article notes, "This year is the 40th anniversary of William Gibson's classic novel Neuromancer. It's a work of singular brilliance that arrived as part of a new vanguard... new science fiction authors who had eschewed formulaic space operas for "bizarre hard-edged, high-tech stuff." Cyberpunk. It surprise no one to learn I was onboard with cyberpunk in the early days, devouring Gibson and Bruce Sterling and others in my influential 20s. Stuff like Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Idoru mapped out a path for me I didn't even know I was on. You can't write my history (not that anyone would) without mentioning cyberpunk. Via Jack Cheng.

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