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Burning Chrome Paperback – July 29, 2003

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Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."

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Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of Johnny Mnemonic to the street-tech melancholy of Burning Chrome.

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Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Voyager; Reprint edition (July 29, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060539828
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060539825
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.57 x 8 inches
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William Gibson is the award-winning author of Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Difference Engine, with Bruce Sterling, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties and Pattern Recognition. William Gibson lives in Vancouver, Canada. His latest novel, published by Penguin, is Spook Country (2007).

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I love reading this book, it does have a beat that reminds me noir stories. I love the stylistics and futuristic settings that the shorts stories build upon each other.To my knowledge there is no Movie adaptation that makes justice to the future that Gibson depicts in his stories. If you are into cyberpunk, tech noir or like Shadowrun o Nirvana (the movie, not the grunge band) I pretty sure you will enjoy this book.
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Mr. ZHI
5.0 out of 5 stars Sci fi with a deep soul
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2023
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So, despite being a pretty prolific reader, and having read a ton of sci fi and fantasy... had never read William Gibson. Love the game Cyberpunk 2077, Shadowrunners, and cyberpunk and steampunk.

Wow, didn't know what I was missing. The characters he creates are fascinating. No one has a perfect life, all are trying to battle demons. This is more about psychology than sci fi... but there are some really interesting ideas about the future, human augmentation, consumerism, etc.

Some of these short stories are genuinely sad and all of them are compelling and captivating. I do wonder if people will really have deep and powerful human relationships going into the future, as they become less and less solely organic and society changes as well.

During the radio age, families would gather to listen to the news, to dramas, history, and would discuss it. That was the beginning of mass media. With the advance of technology, growth of individual wealth and consumption, while TV started in much the same way as radio, once people started having their own TV for their own rooms, it stopped being so communal. With the internet, laptops, cellphones, and streaming, you will see people in the same room, not talking and watching different things on their phones or playing games on them. Once the metaverse really becomes widely adopted... and there are direct brain interfaces...

I think humans are going to become irreparably isolated, with people preferring their metaverse to the real world. The real world is restrictive. It has laws, physical and natural and societal. The real world and real life can suck. Why not stay in your fake world with your small "tribe" of exactly like minded people and fly, be a superhero, be a warlord, be a porn star, whatever it is you desire. You didn't have the fortune of being born beautiful? Well, you can look however you want in the metaverse, change it when you want, change anything you want. Once people can "jack in"... I think that the definition of "being human" is going to transform... and not for the better.
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Michael G Kurilla
4.0 out of 5 stars Early, prescient work
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021
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William Gibson's Burning Chrome is a collection of short stories produced early in his career. The range of stories span the general themes that Gibson has explored in later full length novels. Included is the basis for the film Johnny Mnemonic. All the stories involve individuals interacting and engaging with various forms of technology that alter the individual rather than merely extend their capabilities. It's clear that Gibson was feeling out the implications of increasing technological interactions throughout society and the impact on the sense of individuality as well as what it essentially means to be human. For anyone intrigued by his later works, it's a fascinating view into his early thought processes regarding technology's potential that has turned out to eerily accurate.
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Austin C. Beeman
5.0 out of 5 stars The Iconic Collection of Gibson's Short Fiction. 90% positive rating.
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
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Burning Chrome is a collection of 10 short stories by Cyberpunk Master William Gibson. It includes many of his most famous stories: including Johnny Mnemonic, Gernsback Continuum, Belonging Kind, and Burning Chrome. These are tightly written adventures jam-packed with science fiction invention. The style of writing is tense, crisp, and clear and definitely pulls you into the world of these tales. If there is anything to complain about, it is that Gibson has been so influential in the genre that many of these don’t impress upon the reader the originality that they held upon publication.

Burning Chrome is rated 90%.

8 good / 2 average / 0 poor.

Johnny Mnemonic.

Good. This is probably the best story in the collection. Far superior to the awful film of the same title. The story crackles with excitement, razor sharp writing, and lots of speculation about the future. It is great first cyberpunk story for any reader as you follow Johnny with a secret trapped in his brain that he can’t access and many people want to kill him for.

The Gernsback Continuum

Good. A fantasy fable of science fiction’s past as Hugo-Gernsback-era design bleeds enticingly into the present world.

Fragments of a Hologram Rose

Average. A little scattershot as the main character reminisces about a girl he knew

The Belonging Kind. By John Shirley and William Gibson

Good. A dreamlike fantasy story as a man follows a mysterious woman through a hypnotic cityscape.

Hinterlands

Good. Atmospheric tale of the horrible price of space exploration

Red Star, Winter Orbit. by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson

Average. Mutiny aboard a Soviet-controlled space station.

New Rose Hotel

Good. Enough invention here for another writer’s trilogy of novels. This is a crime story and spy story and a love story - within a complex cyberpunk world.

The Winter Market

Good. Another spectacular story. This one tells about a man who writes dreams in to VR entertainment and an artist genius of a \ woman at the end of her rope.

Dogfight. by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson

Good. The dogfights here are the airplanes of world wars past. A transient man with dreams of winning money from virtual dogfights meets a privileged college girl and begins a friendship. Visceral and heartbreaking.

Burning Chrome

Good. Another classic. A deep run in the Matrix against a brutal mob figure. A beautiful girl caught up in transhuman technological upgrades. Love, betrayal, and greed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fine collection
Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2023
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I really enjoyed these short stories, Some of the prose leaps off the page and bites you in your mind's eye.
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Kingson
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting.
Reviewed in Germany on October 30, 2023
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I liked a lot about the book, the idea, the thrill to keep reading. Loved it.
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flyingfish
3.0 out of 5 stars Il libro è arrivato in tempo ma con la copertina rovinata
Reviewed in Italy on October 6, 2022
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Il libro è arrivato in tempo ma con la copertina rovinata. Peccato perchè era un regalo!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but endings kind of fall short
Reviewed in Mexico on October 19, 2019
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Interesting stories, full of cyberpunk imagination. Crazy new worlds. But I don't like the endings. Kind of fall short, too me.
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Tom
5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2018
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Being an avid fan of Gibsons' work, I avoided reading this collection of short stories for quite a while. I've read short story collections from other authors, where one or two pieces in the collection meet expectations, but where a number are poor to the point of exasperation.

I'm glad I took the bait on this collection, however. Gibson gives us a variety of writing styles, with my anticipated jumps into his trademark Cyberpunk genre (Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel Burning Chrome) with other stories in universes not unlike our own, though always with an edge that makes the book very difficult to put down.

I first came across Gibson in the Omni Magazine, a publication that is sadly no longer with us, feasting on the dark world presented to us in  Johnny Mnemonic. Years later, I read through all his early Cyberpunk (Sprawl Trilogy) work, becoming a huge fan in the process.

The Difference Engine was the next publication I found, which puzzled me.  A completely different style, which I must admit, took me several attempts over many months before I finished to book. It’s still not a favorite, I’m afraid.

Virtual Light was different again, and I started to appreciate that Gibson’s skill set was much wider than I had first appreciated.  For me, Gibson reverts back to a far more readily absorbed idiom, and I quickly became absorbed in the characters and storylines that are compelling and absorbing.

More recently, The Peripheral was another book I found very difficult to read initially. It took me three attempts to read it, finally managing to comprehend the language and piece together a vision of the story.  I’m so glad I persevered too.  The story is stunning, with well-maintained consistency to a complex multi-dimensional storyline and a thoroughly engaging group of characters.  I must have re-read that five or six times now and I get something new from it every time.

In conclusion, Gibson is an amazing author, with the skills to render his compelling characters in a stupefying collection of different worlds/ages/environments with a narrative that's consistently gripping and emotive.  

If you’ve not read any of his work before, or if you have and just want more, then Burning Chrome is a fabulous introduction/addition to a collection of William Gibson novels.  I can’t recommend his work highly enough.
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