Rudy Rucker: Early Days of Cyberpunk, an except of his memoir:
Gibson was an impressive guy from the start. He was tall, with an unusually thin and somewhat flexible-looking head. When I met him at one of the con parties, he said he was high on some SF-sounding substance I’d never heard of. Perfect. He was bright, funny, intense, and with a comfortable Virginia accent.
Plus: Ballardian examines the roles of Hakim Bey and J.G. Ballard in the history of Cyberpunk