William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy novels are famous early cyberpunk novels.

Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

The tone of his books is generally more irreverent and less self-serious than that of previous cyberpunk novels, notably those of William Gibson.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

It is often discussed along with William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as initiating the cyberpunk genre.

In the 1980s, cyberpunk authors like William Gibson turned away from the optimism and support for progress of traditional science fiction.

William Ford Gibson ( born March 17, 1948 ) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the " noir prophet " of the cyberpunk subgenre.

Cyberspace, the world's computer systems considered as an interconnected whole, can be thought of as a virtual reality ; for instance, it is portrayed as such in the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and others.

* Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk novel Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

* The 2010 novel Zero History by cyberpunk author William Gibson features a " secret " clothing brand named Gabriel Hounds.

One of the collaborations, " Mona Lisa Overdrive ", is titled in reference to the cyberpunk novel of the same name by William Gibson, a major influence on the directors.

William Burroughs is considered a forefather of postmodern literature ; he also inspired the cyberpunk genre.

It has been stylistically compared to William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, as well as Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.

The immediate follow-up to Sentimental Hygiene was 1989's Transverse City, a futuristic concept album inspired by Zevon's interest in the work of cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson.

Examples include the " Mishima Zaibatsu " which is mentioned throughout the Tekken series, the " Zaibatsu " criminal group in Grand Theft Auto 2, and various writings of pioneer cyberpunk author William Gibson.

The real trouble begins when Joey Pardella ( Jesse Bradford ), the novice hacker of the group, successfully breaks into an Ellingson Mineral Company supercomputer ( called " The Gibson ", in homage to cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson ) to prove to the rest of the group that he is an elite hacker.

Mona Lisa Overdrive is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and the final novel of the Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero.

The cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and many others use science fiction techniques to address this postmodern, hyperreal information bombardment.

... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

* Molly Millions, fictional character also known as " Steppin ' Razor ", in the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

De Lint, Huff and Guy Gavriel Kay became notable for using Canadian settings in science fiction and fantasy, and William Gibson pioneered the cyberpunk subgenre with his novel Neuromancer.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

" The Abolition of Work " was a significant influence on futurist and design critic Bruce Sterling, who at the time was a leading cyberpunk science fiction author and called it " one of the seminal underground documents of the 1980s ".

On television, in addition to guest spots on several 1980s sitcoms, Rocket played network president Ned Grossberg on the cyberpunk series Max Headroom, Richard Addison ( brother to Bruce Willis's David Addison ) on the comedy-drama Moonlighting, and Adam on Touched by an Angel.

His stories and novellas might be called interstitial or " slipstream " ( a term invented by the cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling ).

American author Bruce Bethke first coined the term " cyberpunk " in his 1980 short story of the same name, proposing it as a label for a new generation of punk teenagers inspired by the perceptions inherent to the Information Age .< ref >

The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye # 5, in July 1989.

The punk subculture has inspired the cyberpunk and steampunk literature genres.

Plus, I've never liked the term steampunk much for our work, it's derived from cyberpunk ( a term which I think actually fits its genre well ) but we have no punk, and we have more than just steam, and using a different name seemed appropriate.

The following articles deal with the steampunk genre of science fiction, which can be considered a sub-genre or spinoff of cyberpunk.

Since the movie omits the religious and mythical elements of Dick's original novel ( e. g. empathy boxes and Wilbur Mercer ), it falls more strictly within the cyberpunk genre than the novel does.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.

* Feed ( Anderson novel ), a 2002 dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T. ( Matthew Tobin ) Anderson

* Aleph, a system constructed at Athena Station in the cyberpunk novel Halo by Tom Maddox

Bad Voltage, a 1980s cyberpunk novel by Jonathan Littell that also dealt with themes of bisexuality and violence, features guest appearances by a decidedly has-been Jerry Cornelius and a substance-abusing ' Shaky ' Mo Collier.

A similar dish called " Neo Kobe Pizza " is shown in the cyberpunk visual novel video game Snatcher.

In literature, Zion is a space station in the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

Considered the first major cyberpunk novel, it brought into hacker jargon such terms as " cyberspace ", " the matrix ", " simstim ", and " ICE ".