Gibson, Sterling, Vinge, and later Stephenson each helped take the cyberpunk genre to a new level. That said I think John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" deser

Gibson, Sterling, Vinge, and later Stephenson each helped take the cyberpunk genre to a new level. That said I think John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" deserves more mention then it usually gets and I'm glad it appears in this article. Brunner wrote many good stories.