'Unblinking, clinical': From Ballard to cyberpunk
By Simon Sellars • Nov 26th, 2008 •
Category: America, Bruce Sterling, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, William Burroughs, William Gibson, cyberpunk, features, technology
Bruce Sterling wrote: ‘For the cyberpunks … technology is visceral. It is not the bottled genie of remote Big Science boffins; it is pervasive, utterly intimate. Not outside us, but next to us. Under our skin; often, inside our minds.’ And Ballard’s influence was at the heart of it.
