The story collection

(1986) provides a good starting-point for the appreciation and understanding of the themes and narrative practices that William Gibson develops in his longer fiction. It is comprised of a number of short stories that Gibson first published alone or in collaboration with other cyberpunk writers in various science fiction magazines. The stories entitled “Johnny Mnemonic”, “Hinterlands”, “Red Star, Winter Orbit”, “New Rose Hotel”, “Dogfight” and “Burning Chrome” were published in

between 1981-1985; “The Gernsback Continuum” first appeared in

in 1981; “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” was published by

in 1977; and finally “The Belonging Kind”, the collaborative story that Gibson wrote with John…

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Citation: Rapatzikou, Tatiani. "Burning Chrome". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 May 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10549, accessed 26 November 2024.]