The term 'legend' gets bandied about... but today's guest absolutely 100% meets the necessary criteria, having invented the word 'cyberpunk' as the title of his seminal 1980 short story!! We are honoured, delighted, starstruck and did we mention honoured to welcome Bruce Bethke to the show, who talks about being a genre pioneer along with his other work, including publishing other writers via Stupefying Stories (link below) , and tests even Matt's encyclopaedic literary knowledge to the limit!

Find Cyberpunk here: https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cpunk.htm

Stupefying Stories: https://stupefyingstories.com/