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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Awesome cyberpunk short stories - just about all of them classics. (  )danahlongley | Jun 23, 2008 |   This is a collection of Gibson's short stories which contain the embryonic shells of many themes, characters and stories we see in all his full length novels alongside other more individual pieces. I thoroughly enjoy Gibson's world and his full-length novels but I found this collection a slightly frustrating mixed bag of shorter pieces. They veered between stories that never quite fulfilled their promise (the confusing 'Johnny Mnemonic' being a prime example of this) and others which were thoroughly enjoyable but left me itching for more than just a few pages worth of writing that the short story format allowed (such as the eponomous 'Burning Chrome'). It's possible that I am clouded by a dislike of the format itself - I am never fully satisfied by the short story as I find it slightly contrived in style and execution, not substantial enough to fulfil my need. For me this is an interesting window into what Gibson shows he can do in the full-length form, but not my favourite of his publications. (  )klarusu | Apr 29, 2008 | 1  A definitely good collection of stories, basically set in and around the milieu and style of his famous novel of the time. Burning Chrome : Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson Burning Chrome : The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson Burning Chrome : Fragments of a Hologram Rose - William Gibson Burning Chrome : The Belonging Kind - William Gibson Burning Chrome : Hinterlands - William Gibson Burning Chrome : Red Star Winter Orbit - Bruce Sterling and William Gibson Burning Chrome : New Rose Hotel - William Gibson Burning Chrome : The Winter Market - William Gibson Burning Chrome : Dogfight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick Burning Chrome : Burning Chrome - William Gibson Memory boy, samurai girl, cyborg dolphin hook up. 4 out of 5 Not a fan of retro sf design. 4 out of 5 Movies feel real. 3 out of 5 Blending search. 3.5 out of 5 Space spies for alien machines. 3.5 out of 5 Cosmonaut crapout space station hitchhikers. 4 out of 5 Biology sprint. 3.5 out of 5 Diseased girl disappearance upload. 3 out of 5 Gonna pay for the pilot enhancement. 3.5 out of 5 Cracking victim charity. 4 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/07... ( )bluetyson | Jul 2, 2007 |  bluetyson | Jul 2, 2007 | This collection of short stories includes many of Gibson's classics, like Johnny Mnemonic. Reading Gibson is a mind-altering experience: his stories somehow stretch and change you. I couldn't read the whole book in one sitting, because I felt like I needed to come up for air after just a few of them. ( )masyukun | Jun 30, 2007 | 0.082 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060539828, Paperback)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 Mnemonic to 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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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