As he half-jokingly describes himself :

> Along the way he collected degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science, making him the world's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer (just as cyberpunk curled up and died).

More about that close future scifi dead end :

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-craz...

Including a... pandemic novel !

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality...