You've tasted it before, probably many times: "in rock
video, in the hacker underground, in the jarring street tech
of hip-hop and scratch music, in the synthesizer rock of London
and Tokyo".
-- Bruce Sterling, in Intro to "Mirrorshades";
"The cyberpunks did not originate their vision, but picked
up bits and pieces of what was actually coming true, and fed
it back to the readers who were already living in Gibson's Sprawl,
whether they knew it or not."
-- Steve Brown
These papers try to define cyberpunk as
literary/science fiction style: