I’d meet the other canonical cyberpunk, John Shirley, two years later, when we were both staying with Bruce and Nancy Sterling in Austin, Texas, in town for a science fiction convention that was featuring a panel on cyberpunk. John was a trip. When I woke up on Sterling’s couch in the morning, John was leaning over me, staring at my face. “I’m trying to analyze the master’s vibes,” he told me.
Rudy Rucker on the early days of cyberpunk - Boing Boing