by William Gibson · ISBN 9782277302155
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Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface by Bruce Sterling, Johnny Mnemonic, The Gernsback continuum, Fragments of a hologram rose, The belonging kind by John Shirley and William Gibson, Hinterlands, Red star, winter orbit by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, New Rose Hotel, The winter market, Dogfight by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson, Burning chrome.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
