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CYBER_ROOTS

                                             July 29, 2015

  John Shirley, in the introduction
  to "Black Glass", discusses the
  influences on the cyberpunks:
                                            GENESIS_OF_THE_CYBER-PUNKS

  "Cyberpunk fiction, as written by Bruce Sterling,
  Lew Shiner, Pat Cadigan, Richard Kadrey,
  Rudy Rucker and William Gibson (oh-- and me),
  has more roots than the obvious Samuel R. Delany
  novels (like _Nova_ and _Dhalgren_), John Brunner
  novels (like _Shockwave Rider_ and _Stand on
  Zanzibar_) and, well, writing by Philip Dick and
  Alfred Bester and JG Ballard and Michael Moorcock's
  NewWave sf, generally.  Its antecedents reach back
  into noir; into hardboiled crime fiction and certain
  kinds of detective novels.  Agatha Christie?  Hell no.
  But James M. Cain?  Hell yes.  Dashiell Hammett.              DEEP_BLUE
  John D. MacDonald-- my memory is that Gibson and
  Sterling both mentioned, to me, having read most
  of John D. MacDonald.  We all read Jim Thompson,
  too, probably.  And certain very gritty, darkly
  urbane spy novels were important to cyberpunk:
  Len Deighton and especially early John le Carre."


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