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Burning Chrome [Paperback]

William Gibson (Author)
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Publication Date: 27 Nov 1995

Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time.

Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson’s vision has become a touchstone – his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future.

Lowlife characters, ghosts and hallucinations haunt the malls and plazas of an intensely realized holographic world, a name-brand society, with cloned Ninja bodyguards, retro fashions, stunning ideas.
Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru, prophet and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality.

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Voyager; New Ed edition (27 Nov 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0006480438
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006480433
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 0.3 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 147,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘A fistful of fast, challenging, hot-wired short stories’
New Musical Express

‘Furiously inventive, brilliantly written, the cutting edge of sf’
Guardian

‘Some subversives are still at work proving that SF can pack its strongest blows into its shortest works… He’s at his best dealing with the victims of the new, the people burnt out by drugs, computers, huge corporations or the strangeness of space’
Fiction Magazine

‘At once a lament and a critique, these stories show the way SF is being rewired. Gibson, his finger jitteringly on the fast-forward button, shows the direction in which our literature might be headed’
The Times

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Ten Brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson’s vision has become a touchstone – not only within the genre. Gibson in the nineties is the unchanged guru, prophet and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality. The stories, with their vivid cast of lowlife characters in an intensely realised high-tech world, paint an instantly recognisable portrait of the modern predicament.

‘A fistful of fast, challenging, hot-wired short stories.’
NEW MUSIC EXPRESS

“Some subversives are still at work proving that SF can pack its strongest blows into its shortest works … He’s at his best dealing with the victims of the new, the people burnt out by drugs, computers, huge corporations or the strangeness of space”
FICTION MAGAZINE

“At once a lament and a critique, these stories show the way SF is being rewired. Gibson, his finger jitteringly on the fast forward button, shows the direction in which our literature might be headed”
THE TIMES

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of short stories not to be missed 11 Oct 2000
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Gibson gives his best in the hard work of recalling, fixing and arranging moments in short, moving and touchy stories. Great stories like "Burning Chrome", "Fragments of a hologram rose", "Jhonny Mnemonic" or "New Rose Hotel" show the hints of the world he unrolls in his novels, but maybe the most wonderful thing is seeing him at work on completly different styles than usual, like in the astinishing "Hinterand". A great collection, a must to every Gibson-fan.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended -- but with reservations. 22 Dec 2001
By Mr. Patrick A. Harrington VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
William Gibson is best known as the author of Neuromancer -- his first novel, which caused him to be hailed in  The Sunday Times as "the information age's resident populist prophet".
The book reviewed here is a collection of ten short stories, including his first published story Fragments of a Hologram Rose from 1977.

Gibson's style has been described as "a combination of low-life and high-tech". This collection shows how perceptive he can be in observing both. Gibson doesn't just use technology as a back-drop or to provide props; he considers the effects that developments in technology might have upon individuals and societies. In Johnny Mnemonic for example a character explains:--

"We're an information economy. They teach you that at school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified."

Gibson describes also the detail of low-life settings. In this collection there are very good descriptions of different types of bars in The Belonging Kind. He paints portraits of different characters, Deke in Dogfight, Lese in The Winter Market, with different colours and shades.

Ultimately, however, he extrapolates from a mass (or media) consciousness of the present. Gibson has interesting things to say but he is not a prophet. The future will not be the same as his stories. The Soviet Union has not dominated space research (as in Red Star, Winter Orbit), in fact it no longer exists. Many future developments will derive not from mass actions or popular consciousness, but from the work of "outsiders". Instead of looking just at what is now considered "central", perhaps he should view what is emerging at the edge....

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An impressive variety 15 Jun 2010
By Jeremy Walton TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
This is a collection of Gibson's earliest writings which explore the combined themes of - as Bruce Sterling put it - "lowlife and high-tech" that he has made his own. The stories (the earliest of which dates from 1977) were originally published in magazines such as Omni, and this compendium first appeared in 1986 - a couple of years after Gibson's first novel, the classic Neuromancer. The themes for that story were clearly sown in these tales, many of which are also set in the Sprawl (Gibson's dystopian visualization of a megalopolis formed from the cities of the north-eastern US).

I'd previously come across a couple of these stories in the somewhat uneven Hackers collection, and they're in more consistent company here. As others have noted, Gibson has the crucial ability to paint a complete world using only a small space, so that you immediately understand what's possible with the technology (this is all science fiction, after all). In spite of the common themes, there's an impressive variety in this collection, with each story being distinctively different from the others. If pressed to choose a favorite, I think I'd go for "Hinterlands", which represents an intelligent and fascinating twist on the standard contact-with-an-alien-culture story. But all of the stories could be strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in science fiction or technological futures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Short Story Collection
These are a collection of short stories written by Gibson, sometimes with the help of collaborators. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Andrew Dalby
4.0 out of 5 stars A collection of short stories
Some of the stories about Johnny especially provide some prequel background information to this book and also has the first Sprawl stories which lead onto the Neuromancer... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2010 by Paul M
5.0 out of 5 stars many layered science fiction
Mr Gibsons books always make me re-read them and think about them for weeks afterwards and not many writers achieve that.
Published on 9 Mar 2010 by Mr. M. Hinstridge
5.0 out of 5 stars A Cyber-classic
It is always a pleasure to read these stories written almost in a cyber-classical mode. Johnny Mnemonic or the title giving story Burning Chrome are great reads, but also... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2009 by A.C. Kinbote
4.0 out of 5 stars Very nearly a cyberpunk genre defining classic, but that crown has to...
Gangsters, double crosses, hustles, hallucinogenics, neural interfaces, virtual reality: elements of the past and future fused together. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2008 by Peter Debney
5.0 out of 5 stars THERE ARE NO MAPS FOR THESE QUICKSILVER TERRITORIES
It can be stated that it is worthy for one to learn English only to be able to read NEW ROSE HOTEL in the original. No translation can do justice to Gibson's fresh prose. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2007 by NeuroSplicer
5.0 out of 5 stars A collection that you must not miss.
This collection contains ten stories, seven of which are solo works by William Gibson and the other three are collaborations. Read more
Published on 27 May 2001
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