Name: Burning Chrome
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Author: William Gibson

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." Biography William Gibson's feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal "cyberpunk" novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers About The Author: William Gibson's feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal "cyberpunk" novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers. Table Of Contents: PrefaceSource Code: An IntroductionJohnny Mnemonic1The Gernsback Continuum24Fragments of a Hologram Rose37The Belonging Kind45Hinterlands61Red Star, Winter Orbit84New Rose Hotel109The Winter Market124Dogfight151Burning Chrome179 Read a Sample Chapter Burning Chrome By William Gibson Harper Collins Publishers Copyright © 2003 William Gibson All right reserved. ISBN: 0060539828 Chapter One Johnny Mnemonic i put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. I'd had to turn both these twelve-gauge shells from brass stock, on a lathe, and then load t

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