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Burning Chrome (Paperback)

by William Gibson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (21 April 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586074619
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586074619
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. With a hard-edged, gloomy passion and intensely realized detail, these stories are a synthesis of pop culture, high tech and advanced literary technique. In them Gibson charts the unchecked rise of multinational corporations and the addictively transcendent potential of cyberspace. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson's vision has become a universal 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 mingle to their mutual peril in the malls and plazas of an intensely realized holographic name-brand society. Cloned Ninja bodyguards and retro fashions, voodoo and deadly cyber criminals: here is a heady mix of imagery delivered with exaggerated clarity against a constant subliminal hum of high tech.

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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gibson lives in the details, 14 Sep 2000
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Although I love Neuromancer and Gibson's other books, its in his short stories he really excels. He manages to paint a complete world in a page or two, fleshing out his characters into real people. Some of the stories seem to be in the world of the sprawl, others are in very different places. All have the strange tension of living in a place on the edge of change, the Edge where console cowboys cut ICE from the datacores of an Old/Young woman or burned out hustlers dogfight holographic planes around the lightbulbs of seedy bars. Each story is Short, sharp and glorious.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A collection that you must not miss., 27 May 2001
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This collection contains ten stories, seven of which are solo works by William Gibson and the other three are collaborations. Nine appeared previously between 1977 and 1985 and one was new for this collection.

Gibson writes hard, technical cyber-punk SF with the art of a real master of the short story genre. Good SF shorts are of course all about ideas, situations and snappy plot twists but great examples of this genre also pack in characters that you can understand and root for and worlds that come to life in your head. It is hard to do that and only a handful of writers can turn out work of this quality.

The opening shot in the book, "Johnny Mnemonic" is one of those rare tales that burns its way into your head. Reading it is almost like being there watching the events unfold. The narrative makes the outlandish grunge-tech future come to life and it is easy to see how this tale inspired the making of a movie.

It is a powerful start and the rest of the book does not disappoint. From the anonymous barfly world of "The Belonging Kind", up into the dying orbit of an old Russian space station in "Red Star, Winter Orbit" and back to the seedy hacker world of "Burning Chrome" Gibson delivers a set of tales for which the phrase "assault on the senses" is no exaggeration.

The book is a fine introduction to both Gibson and the cyber-punk genre and it is a book that every SF fan should own and re-read regularly. If you like it and to want to explore similar work, I'd suggest "A Good Old Fashioned Future" by Bruce Sterling, or the "Mirrorshades" anthology.

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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 10 months ago by A.C. Kinbote

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nearly a cyberpunk genre defining classic, but that crown has to go to Gibson's Neuromancer
Gangsters, double crosses, hustles, hallucinogenics, neural interfaces, virtual reality: elements of the past and future fused together. Read more
Published 15 months ago 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

4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended -- but with reservations.
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... Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2001 by Mr. Patrick A. Harrington

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