Voici ce qu'elle dit du Cyberpunk.
"Hat led you to cyberpunk? I always think of you as one of the mamas of the genre.
Pat Cadigan : John Shirley once described cyberpunk as a tribal thing and I can’t think of any better way to describe it. It was something in the air at the time–all the writers who came to be identified as cyberpunks were reading a lot of the same things, listening to a lot of the same music, and were all within five or so years of each other, so we had the same life landmarks even if our backgrounds weren’t the same. I didn’t really know a lot of them personally–I was just reading and writing on my own when Bruce Sterling got in touch with me about a story I’d written called “Rock On.” That was the story that ended up in Mirrorshades and it is, word for word, the most profitable thing I’ve ever written in terms of its earning power. People usually get around to asking me why I was the only woman. I’ll tell you honestly: I don’t know. Statistical anomaly, maybe. There really weren’t any other women writers at the time who were doing the kind of writing that I was and there still aren’t many today–Tricia Sullivan and Justina Robson are the only two I can think of offhand. But so what? Times have changed anyway and cyberpunk has been recognized for what it has always been: hard sf."