I seen the error of my ways. William Gibson isn't an easy author to get into and my mistake was jumping directly into Neuromancer without any prior knowledge of his writing. So from now on when somebody asks me if they should get into Gibson I will advise them to start from this anthology. It shows the themes he likes to tackle, his writing style and the worlds he likes to create and is an excellent way to ease new readers into his works.Now, onward to rest of his works!

Posted at HeradasWilliam Gibson blew the Science Fiction world wide open in the mid eighties with his cyberpunk novels, particularly the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick award winning Neuromancer. Ridley Scott gave us the visual aesthetic with Blade Runner, but Gibson firmly established Cyberpunk as a literary movement. As a genre it would go on to live a fairly short life, plateauing in the late eighties, followed by a handful of peak post-cyberpunk moments in the nineties (Snow Crash, Ghost in...

Did not finish. Giving up due to the book being too confusing. I didn't understand anything; perhaps I've just been too tired when trying to read it, perhaps I just don't get it.

As a Canadian, I'm very proud of a seemingly little known fact about our country; my favourite subgenre of science fiction, cyberpunk, was born here. Its most influential founding texts were written in Vancouver, B.C., by legendary Canadian science fiction author William Gibson. In his excellent short story collection Burning Chrome, he actually sets one of the stories in Vancouver, mentioning other nearby cities and districts like Richmond and Granville Island in it as well.There has been a lon...

Summary: William Gibson, Grandmaster of SF, published some 20 short stories in his long writing career since 1981. Half of them found their way into this 1986 collection. They are representative of his works in the 1980s given that three of them - Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel, and Burning Chrome - are set in his famous Sprawl universe. You know, the one he became famous with: Neuromancer (review). Gibson set out to revolutionize the stale SF business, creating with a handful other authors a n...

“if poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters.” ― Bruce Sterling introducing William Gibson's, Burning ChromeA set of 10 short stories: early Gibson cyberpunk and sic-fi that anticipate both his SPRAWL and BLUE ANT series. All the Gibson tropes are there just waiting to bud and bloom. Gibson's cyberpunk, dark and messy near-future; his obsession with technology, music, clothing; his uncanny ability to describe and name the bleeding edge

Wired West"Burning Chrome" is a fascinating collection of stories that chart the origin of the Sprawl Trilogy. You can watch William Gibson building the world of the Sprawl ("of cities and smoke"), cyberspace and the characters who would later be explored in the three novels.Equally importantly, you can observe him developing a unique style of writing suited to this world.It's data- and sensory-rich, almost exhausting in its detail, which is revealed without information dumps or definitions. It

This is the fist time I have read anything by William Gibson and I have to say since I have already purchased each book in the Sprawl Trilogy I am really excited to read some more by him, especially Neuromancer; being next on the William Gibson list! "Source Code" ***** "Johnny Mnemonic" ***** "The Gernsback Continuum" ***** "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" *** "The Belonging Kind," with John Shirley ***** "Hinterlands" **** "Red Star, Winter Orbit," with Bruce Sterling ***** "New Rose Hotel" **...

I jacked into the Toronto construct matrix and downloaded Gibson’s Burning Chrome onto my deck, plugged the simstim recorder on and zoned out.Gibson’s Sprawl collection from eighty-six was as lethal as black ice, but my neural implants would keep me dosing through all ten shorts. A handful of amitriptyline and a slug of Sobieski would also keep me running. Gibson is at his best in the short medium and I wanted to catch it all.Some stories shine on BAMA and others are stand-alones, but all good.

Is it okay, do you think, to say I find William Gibson's cycle of short stories, Burning Chrome, to be a work of profound beauty? Probably not, but I'm going to say it anyway: Burning Chrome is beautiful.But how can it be? How can something like the Sprawl, Gibson's pollution choked mega-city, and our shared technological-future-nightmare be beautiful? My description suggests it can't, yet I find much beauty in Gibson's future. There's something magnificent about monomolecular wires and Razorgir...

We are very spoiled, and very privileged, to live now in the twenty-first century. We look back on works of science fiction from the 1950s, 1960s, and onward that reference the 1990s or 2000s as "the future" and make grandiose predictions: we'll have flying cars! a eugenics war! robot apocalypse! It's interesting to note that such extrapolation, while often falling very short of the mark, tends to be conservative when it describes the technological platforms through which we acquire these flying...

The stories in this volume pre-date Neuromancer by date of composition, but were published slightly after as a set. I had no idea that Molly in Neuromancer was also Molly Millions in Johnny Mnemonic (I also didn't know William Gibson wrote that story! Time to watch the movie....)Burning Chrome is the most significant story in this volume, because it contains most of the ideas and atmosphere that would later become Neuromancer - the cybercowboy, ICE, and the idea of viruses. The other stories con...

In 2005 my husband and I rented Johnny Mnemonic; it was one of the stupidest films we had ever seen. Curious to see if it was a problem with the translation to film or the source material, I decided to get a copy of the book: Burning Chrome, the first story being "Johnny Mnemonic." Having now suffered through the entire collection of stories, I can say that both the filmmakers and the author can share the blame equally.I know that there are many fans of William Gibson's books but he doesn't do m...

12-23-2021 UPDATE: THIS, ON SALE, LIMITED TIME,AMAZON 1.99This short story collection was awesome. Everything I've been wanting in literature. "The Matrix" in literary form. Gibson creates these worlds that make you experience them as if he has taken unseen plugs and jacked you in to the story, or he has laced every one of the copies of his books with nanobots that create the experience as an interface in the brain when you read it.He has this powerful, poetic style. He is a master of the craft....

This is a collection of early (1977-1985) short stories and novelettes by the master of cyberpunk, William Gibson. It contains two stories from Sprawl universe and I decided to read them before continuing with the Sprawl Challenge in Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group. Here are the stories and their ratingsJohnny Mnemonic 5 stars this story won Nebula. It is about a man who uses his brain to transport sensitive data. Once he got data from wrong and powerful people.The Gernsback Continuum 5

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Future Technologies: "Burning Chrome" by William GibsonHippies have known about these dangerous technologies for a long time, and the state cracks down hard on them, and not entirely without good reason either. The world cannot run (for long anyway) on raves and drugs and loud music, any fool can see that. There is also a false economy in these supposedly 'efficient' economies, because if you run a sustainable event and people attend y...

I know I am repeating myself, but after having already read Sterling, Reynolds and Gibson’s Neuromancer, this collection didn’t surprise me the way I expected.However, I do not contest its originality and groundbreaking impact it had at the moment of its appearance; it’s just that some books should be read at their time, especially in science fiction.I still liked it a lot, though. More than 30 years after it was published, the stories seem both fresh and vintage at the same time; the audio cass...

I think this is the collection where I finally understood the cyberpunk of William Gibson despite having read four of his novels.For me he is all about the mileau, the crafting of the dystopian world that his stories exist in and his characters evolve from is his primary skill, everything that comes evolves from there. Not to doubt his acknowedged talent as an ideas man.I was particularly impressed with New Rose Hotel, his style of narration called to mind Chris Markers La Jetee and Wong Kar-Wai...

Executive Summary: An anthology of 10 short stories mostly related to or set in Mr. Gibson's Sprawl world. I enjoyed some, but not all of the stories. Only worth picking up if you really like the Sprawl books in my opinion.Audio book: 10 stories. 10 different narrators. None of them stand out one way or another. Nobody was excellent and nobody was terrible. A few did occasional voices or accents, but none of them struck as particularly memorable. Full Review Neuromancer is one of those books

This was... a very different read than I expected, but I liked it. I already knew that Gibson's a writer who really divides readers, and even though I generally prefer the New Wave/cyberpunk school of science-fiction over the genre's "golden age" (for reasons related to writing style rather than political ideology might I add) there were still several surprises.One thing that struck me very much was how unlike the cyberpunk stereotypes the stories found in "Burning Chrome" actually are. Less tha...