Excellent collection of short stories

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	• Burning Chrome William Gibson Eos, 2003 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

worth it for "Hinterlands" alone

Take this and the collection Mirrorshades (edited by Bruce Sterling and you will have the definitive "cyberpunk" short story collection.

Burning Chrome is a solid representation of Gibson's early work ("the Sprawl period") and while its most often represented with references to Neuromancer, his finest, most poignant prose is in this collection of short stories.

Perhaps most utterly fascinating is the late-stage Cold War mentality that we had ourselves a nuclear armageddon just around the corner but that after we got there, we would discover it just wasn't nearly as bad as we'd hoped. A few feeble bomb exchanges are overshadowed by black ops infiltration both physical and digital. Our wars are over in days rather than years and then we all go back to normal with re-drawn borders that mean anything only to cartographers anyway.

Even in the shorts where a near-term memory of war is noticeably absent (e.g., "The Gernsback Continuum"), the emphasis still seems to lie on epoch-altering events that are so feeble in their moment but so far-reaching in their wake.

All that said: "Hinterlands" is the most gut-wrenchingly emotional story in science fiction; if nothing else, it alone makes this collection a must-have.

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all wonderful but not all cyberpunk

While William Gibson IS a gifted writer with his original insights into post-modern technological cultural, these short stories don't all revolve around this theme. Only Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel, Winter Market and Burning Chrome. These stories are the of the same caliber as Neuromancer and Count Zero (the other two Gibson novels I've read). The other stories were not throwaways, but they were goodies thrown into the bag- all good, some exceptional, prosed with short yet deep stories. This is a definite addition to a Gibson collection, but would I go as far as saying that this is a definite addition to a cyberpunk collection... perhaps.

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Solid, introductory selections

This is a short collection of some of Gibson's only short stories and provides a pretty solid glimpse into the cyberpunk genre. The stories themselves often seem a bit incomplete, a little fragmented at times, they were Gibson's early attempts at writing. Some of the other stories such as 'Dogfight' and 'Burning Chrome' are excellent in idea and execution. A good read overall.

Not Free SF Reader

A definitely good collection of stories, basically set in and around the milieu and style of his famous novel of the time.

Burning Chrome : Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Fragments of a Hologram Rose - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Belonging Kind - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Hinterlands - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Red Star Winter Orbit - Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
Burning Chrome : New Rose Hotel - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Winter Market - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Dogfight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
Burning Chrome : Burning Chrome - William Gibson

Memory boy, samurai girl, cyborg dolphin hook up.

4 out of 5

Not a fan of retro sf design.

4 out of 5

Movies feel real.

3 out of 5

Blending search.

3.5 out of 5

Space spies for alien machines.

3.5 out of 5

Cosmonaut crapout space station hitchhikers.

4 out of 5

Biology sprint.

3.5 out of 5

Diseased girl disappearance upload.

3 out of 5

Gonna pay for the pilot enhancement.

3.5 out of 5

Cracking victim charity.

4 out of 5

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Excellent collection of short stories

If you liked Neuromancer - you gonna love this collection of short stories by the master of cyber punk genre.
Highly recommended!

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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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