And, yeah, there are rarely any redeeming characters – most of his narrators are anti-heroes. I enjoyed all of them, though my favorite was the last story, “Burning Chrome.” Gibson’s prose can get annoying because it’s so dense, and there are so many obscure pop-culture references. There are 10 stories in Burning Chrome, three of which are collaborations with other authors. Gibson is perhaps the most well-known of all the “cyberpunk” authors, a genre that I love. It’s a grimy high-tech future with lowlife characters like addicts and thieves scraping by in a late-capitalist world. It’s a great collection of stories.Īll the stories in Burning Chrome are based in the Sprawl universe that Gibson later expanded upon in his novels. I’ve read Gibson’s Neuromancerand the rest of the Sprawl trilogy multiple times, and I was excited to dive into Burning Chrome, which collects all of the short fiction he’s ever written.
Yes, his books can be difficult to read sometimes, so his work is possibly an acquired taste.
The Canadian-American science fiction writer is known best for coining the term “cyberspace” in the title story of this collection.
William Gibson is one of those authors who people either love or hate.
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