Regarding J.G. Ballard, my understanding is that the early Cyberpunk authors were all absolutely heavily inspired by his works. Somebody (I forget who) said som

Regarding J.G. Ballard, my understanding is that the early Cyberpunk authors were all absolutely heavily inspired by his works. Somebody (I forget who) said something to the effect of "We were all competing to see who would out-Ballard who".