Burning Chrome Summary / Study Guide

Burning Chrome | Characters

The narrators are always male in Gibson's stories and usually possess some of the following traits: cynicism, less-than-average looks, shaky financial status, drug addiction, technical ability, weak physical strength, pale skin. They are the postmodern everyman, and usually their looks are not described. The women who appear in the stories are the ones who have hair and eye color, bodies and clothes to display. Some of them, like Molly Millions, possess physical strength and killer instincts, which they use to rescue the men they like. (These men are not waiting to be rescued, however; they...

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