Burning Chrome: Library Edition

from Ma_Washigeri

How did I miss William Gibson back in the eighties? These short stories are brilliant. Partly a window back in time to a way of thinking about the future that feels retrospective without feeling dated. The start with Johnny Mnemonic and The Gernsback Continuum are brilliant, as is the the finish ...

from masyukun

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 t...

from tlockney

Just as good as the first time I read it -- though the experience is obviously colored having seen the future, in many ways, that Gibson was trying to capture. There's a few weak spots in here, but overall I'd say it holds up well. Think of it, in some cases anyway, as an alternate history versio...

from klarusu

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...

from truth_of_spirit

It features some of the characters from the Sprawl trilogy as well as introducing some of the key concept discussed in those novels, it kind of gets you in the mood for reading them ;-)I really like it.