Dan grows up, gets educated, writes his first story.
Joins the information superhighway and learns about the magic of usenet. Joins news:alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo and starts to contribute.
Alt cyberpunk chatsubo was a group dedicated to the discussion of why cyberpunk was just so cool.
It also had a load of budding authors who would write cyberpunk stories and collaborative fiction as if we were patrons of the Chatsubo – a famous fictional dive bar that comes from William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the touchstone of all cyberpunk writing https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Chatsubo
There is a call for stories, so I write my first story “Tank Boy” for the the Anthology. Reading it over again now, it’s pretty bad.
Suprisingly you can still buy the anthology on Amazon. Alt Cyberpunk Chatsubo Anthology
Thing is, I only wrote a story. The real work was by Che Paula Dunlop – shepherding the authors and getting the stories and poems together into a coherent whole. – more details here https://www.accanthology.com/makingof.html
I can’t find an easily available text of it online, but I wouldn’t recommend reading it, it’s riddled with spelling mistakes and the rhythm is all wrong.
But it was the start, and it’s r-reading it, it is still undeniably my voice.