Burning Chrome (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Gibson
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: Primarily the early twenty-first century, with some stories set in the 1980’s
- Setting: Earth and elsewhere in the solar system
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Other worlds, Twenty-first century, 1980’s, Organized crime, Technology, Corporations
- Locales: Earth, Solar system
The Plot
A collection of primarily near-future stories, Burning Chrome demonstrates the style, ambiguity, and dark vision characteristic of William Gibson’s work. The ten stories in this collection can be divided into four groups on the basis of their settings.
“New Rose Hotel,” “Johnny Mnemonic,” and “Burning Chrome” are stories of the Sprawl, set in the early twenty-first century Earth further developed in the novels Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). High technology, organized crime,...
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