Burning Chrome

About this book

Ten brilliant, streetwise, high-resolution stories from the man who coined the word "cyberspace". Gibson's vision has become a touchstone in the emerging order of the 21st Century, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonicto the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. With their vividly human characters and their remorseless, hot-wired futures, these stories are simultaneously science fiction at its sharpest and instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition. Contents: - Johnny Mnemonic(1981) - The Gernsback Continuum(1981) - Fragments of a Hologram Rose(1977) - The Belonging Kind(1981) with John Shirley - Hinterlands(1981) - Red Star, Winter Orbit(1983) with Bruce Sterling - New Rose Hotel(1984) - The Winter Market(1985) - Dogfight(1985) with Michael Swanwick - Burning Chrome(1982)