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“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times magazine

From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today.

Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and 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 their 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 ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060539828
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060539825
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.5 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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Austin C. Beeman

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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Jon Wolf

Really enjoyable vibe

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2023

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It's all different but all connected by tone and style. Despite when it was written, it still feels like it's from an alternate future with different tech. If you like Gibson's work, you will definitely enjoy his b-sides.

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Pure futuristic, cybernetic awesomeness

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2021

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I have had some exposure to the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction in the past; namely The Matrix Film Trilogy, the film Hackers, the classic and underrated computer game “Beneath a Steel Sky,” the anime films “Ghost in the Shell” and “Akira,” and the “Otherland Trilogy” by Tad Williams. But reading the collection “Burning Chrome” by William Gibson was my first real foray into the material of one of the literary masters that started the whole cyberpunk subgenre.
This collection really has everything a cyberpunk fan could ask for; brooding futuristic cityscapes with neon and lasers cutting through the night; futuristic vehicles and unfolding, replicating highways; a neo-noir atmosphere with shady enemies armed to the teeth just waiting to strike; seedy bars, discotheques, and clubs in which cybernetic freaks of nature with hologram tattoos are ready to decimate you in a brawl just for looking at them the wrong way; evil corporate overlords and corrupt media powerbrokers; designer drugs that will turn your entire nervous system to ash if you so much as go over the prescribed dosage by a microscopic amount; battles and voyages through virtual alien vistas in cyberspace; and a lot more.
Not every story within is pure cyberpunk in essence, but every story has at least one element or edge of the cyberpunk genre within it. William Gibson is a writer like no other whose pen flows like digitized silk and has the feel of a futuristic version of Dashiell Hammett.
I loved nearly every story within except a couple that simply were not to my taste, and my favorite one has to be a toss up between the eponymous title and Johnny Mnemonic. There’s just so much good stuff here.
I give “Burning Chrome” by William Gibson a 5 out of 5.

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Michael G Kurilla

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.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 23, 2014

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I haven't read any William Gibson before, and I'm glad I've had a chance to correct this mistake by reading this anthology. A few of the stories here simply mesmerized me. The way in which Gibson uses words -- a detail here, a detail there -- and soon an entire world is contracting in electric shocks and breathing at you from the pages.

The idea behind many stories is "high tech / low life," telling stories of people who'd stepped out of the slums, denizens of the underworld, a world where even the residents of a derelict space station in the story "Red Star, Winter Orbit" seem as shabby and rundown as the station they inhabit. But at the end, all of the stories here (and one might argue, all stories in general) are ultimately about people and their struggle with the world contrasted against their struggles with themselves and each other.

I liked the three last stories in the anthology the best, with "Dogfight," written in collaboration with Michael Swanwick, being possibly the most depressing story I'd ever read. It's also one of the best.

No sentence is ordinary; details flourish; cyberjoints crack. If you like SF, if you like cyberpunk, if you like good stories ... read this book.

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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.

Justin Sullivan

Solid Book of Short Stories

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on October 16, 2022

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So.....

I haven't read a book in years. I decided it would be a good idea to get back into it. Having played Cyberpunk 2077, I was interested in the genre and who better to start with than William Gibson. Neuromancer was on my shelf but before that, I thought I'd ease into it with some short stories. I definitely struggled at first to get a hold of his writing style and a few of these stories I had to read twice to make sure I understood what was going on.

1. Johnny Mnemonic - 4
2. The Germsback Continuum - 3
3. Fragments of a Hologram Rose - 3
4. The Belonging Kind - 4
5. Hinterlands - 3
6. Red Star, Winter Orbit - 3
7. New Rose Hotel - 4
8. The Winter Market - 4
9. Dogfight - 4
10. Burning Chrome - 4

一市民

懐かしい短編集を原書で購読

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on March 25, 2012

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サイバーパンクの古典的傑作短編集を原書で読みたくなり二十余年ぶりに再読。

昔読んだときは斬新なガジェット、テクノロジー描写と先鋭的な文体に驚いた
ものでしたが、サイバーパンクムーブメントがはるか過去となり陳腐化した
現代においても非常に読ませる短編ぞろいだなと感じました。
それはこの本が描き出されている現代人の強迫的な感情が、今の時代にも通じる
普遍的なものであるから。本書では特に以下の短編が印象に残りました。

・The Belonging Kind (ふさわしい連中)
夜の街で遊ぶ人間が少なからず持つであろう、自分がよそ者であるという
潜在的な疎外感を意外な視覚イメージで見せてみる際物的掌編。

・The Gernsback Continuum (ガーンズバック連続帯)
一人の神経症患者のカウンセリング療法を通じて、消費文化に潜在する
記号論的世界を強迫観念として、視覚イメージに転化し、現代文明の虚構性を
鋭くつく興味深い一編。記号論がテーマにされた珍しい小説でもあります。

・Dog Fight (ドッグファイト)
本書中の最高傑作。第一次大戦の複葉機を用いた架空のVR（今ならARともいえる）
ゲームを舞台に、勝負に取り憑かれ破滅的な道を歩む主人公、勝負の世界で君臨し
ながら半ば廃人と化しているチャンピオン、勝負の鍵を握る女を通じて、虚構の
世界での強迫的な感情を描き尽くしたストーリー。現代のネットゲーム廃人等を
予言したような小説でもあり、また意味のない勝負で身を持ち崩すという古典的な
テーマの小説でもあります。

このストーリー構成、どこかで読んだな、と感じ、ロシア文学の古典、プーシキンの
”スペードの女王”のオマージュだと気づいたのは最近のことでした。

昔読んだときは一番エッジでクールと感じた表題作”Burning Chrome”が今ではむしろ
オーソドックスなサイエンスフィクションに見えるのも面白いところです。
すべての短編が素晴らしい、と思えるわけではありませんが、幾つかの短編では80年代に
感じられた輝きが、今でも感じられ、嬉しくなりました。時間の波に耐える良短編集として
高評価をしたいと思います。

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Katrina Redford

Variety of stories

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on April 17, 2020

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Some are a bore but the good ones are very good. I like how you see the author play around with characters and develop them over multiple stories.

Wakizashi

Excellent Collection of Gibson's Short Stories

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on March 1, 2017

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'Burning Chrome' is an excellent collection of short stories and has left me wondering why I didn’t read it sooner. Gibson creates stunning worlds filled with giant, faceless corporations, bio-technology that feels solid and real, class division, alienation, and love, especially lost love. It’s a book that soars with imagination yet also feels grounded by its characters. These are people we can relate to, people down on their luck trying their hardest to make it, hoping to rekindle the flame that burnt so brightly, pushing themselves to make that one final deal that will solve all their problems.

Highly recommended!

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