William Gibson

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

American Writer

Duncan Jones

J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.

English Director

Douglas Rushkoff

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

American Journalist

Warren Spector

In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

American Designer

Robert Sheckley

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

American Author

Pat Cadigan

Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Alastair Reynolds

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

British Author

Zoe Quinn

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

American Artist

Cyberpunk describes a fictional future, not our current or past society.

Not Real World

Cyberpunk often contrasts advanced technology with societal decline.

Technology Contrast

Cyberpunk usually features unconventional, morally ambiguous heroes.

Anti-Hero Characters

The cyberpunk adjective describes a distinct, gritty tech-focused visual style.

Visual Style

Cyberpunk often implies a mood that is dark, edgy, and mysterious.

Mood and Tone

While visual, 'cyberpunk' can also describe thematic elements like corporate control.

Not Just Visual

 and more specifically, access to technology. We need to ensure everyone can participate in this future metaverse. So around the same time as Love Punks, I began imagining how to scale these digital world-building ideas in my cyberpunk web comic called Nawlz.