link it.

I don't think he does genre at all, from what I've read. I'm quite puzzled - what makes him cyberpunk?
(Thanks for the link, BTW.)

I am thinking of the Beerlight stuff in particular. It has a lot of the usual cyberpunk motifs, smart guns, VR, crime, etc. Although I agree that it would be misleading to label him as any particular genre writer. As I said before, this is probably a good thing. Feeding off different genres without falling into any of their cliches.

OK, thanks. I better go reread stuff I'm entirely with you on genre-hacking.

I find it interesting that even though cyberpunk was such a pastiche of genres and inventive in so many ways it quickly became a tired convention and generic genre itself.

Although I think that recently it is beginning to pick up again a bit and these barriers are giving way to experimentation.