Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) by William Gibson — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

Brad rated it really liked it
about 7 years ago

Shelves: sci-fi , short-story , cyberpunk , dystopian , hyperreality , space-noir , speculative

Is it okay, do you think, to say I find William Gibson's cycle of short stories, Burning Chrome, to be a work of profound beauty? Probably not, but I'm going to say it anyway: Burning Chrome is beautiful.

But how can it be? How can something like the Sprawl, Gibson's pollu... Read full review

Darwin8u rated it really liked it
about 1 year ago

Shelves: 2014

“if poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters.”
― William Gibson, Burning Chrome

russian matrix

A set of 10 short stories: early Gibson cyberpunk and sic-fi that anticipate both his SPRAWL and BLUE ANT series. All the Gibson trop... Read full review

Ben Babcock rated it really liked it
over 2 years ago

Shelves: own , 2011-read , anthologies , artificial-intelligence , posthuman , science-fiction , nebula-nominee , canadian-author

We are very spoiled, and very privileged, to live now in the twenty-first century. We look back on works of science fiction from the 1950s, 1960s, and onward that reference the 1990s or 2000s as "the future" and make grandiose predictions: we'll have flying cars! a eugeni... Read full review

Tfitoby rated it really liked it
over 3 years ago

Shelves: short-stories , sci-fi

I think this is the collection where I finally understood the cyberpunk of William Gibson despite having read four of his novels.

For me he is all about the mileau, the crafting of the dystopian world that his stories exist in and his characters evolve from is his primary... Read full review

Oscar rated it it was amazing
about 3 years ago

Shelves: antología-recopilación , cyberpunk , míos , ciencia-ficción , futuro-cercano , 5-estrellas , favorites

’Quemando Cromo’ (Burning Chrome, 1986) contiene los primeros relatos de William Gibson, el aclamado autor de ‘Neuromante’, que dio lugar a todo un subgénero, el cyberpunk (pequeña definición de cyberpunk: normalmente transcurre en un futuro cercano, distópico, dominado p... Read full review

Ian "Marvin" Graye rated it really liked it
over 1 year ago

Shelves: gibson , read-2016 , reviews , reviews-4-stars

Wired West

"Burning Chrome" is a fascinating collection of stories that chart the origin of the Sprawl Trilogy. You can watch William Gibson building the world of the Sprawl ("of cities and smoke"), cyberspace and the characters who would later be explored in the three nov... Read full review

Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it liked it
over 5 years ago

Shelves: read2011 , sci-fi-fantasy , sff-audio , short-stories

The stories in this volume pre-date Neuromancer by date of composition, but were published slightly after as a set. I had no idea that Molly in Neuromancer was also Molly Millions in Johnny Mnemonic (I also didn't know William Gibson wrote that story! Time to watch the mo... Read full review

Rob rated it liked it
7 months ago

Shelves: sprawl , science-fiction , audio-book , read-2014 , own , author-male

Executive Summary: An anthology of 10 short stories mostly related to or set in Mr. Gibson's Sprawl world. I enjoyed some, but not all of the stories. Only worth picking up if you really like the Sprawl books in my opinion.

Audio book: 10 stories. 10 different narrators. N... Read full review

Simon rated it really liked it
over 2 years ago

Shelves: america-north , science-fiction , crime-fiction , postmodernism , magical-realism , 1980s , reviewed

This was... a very different read than I expected, but I liked it. I already knew that Gibson's a writer who really divides readers, and even though I generally prefer the New Wave/cyberpunk school of science-fiction over the genre's "golden age" (for reasons related to w... Read full review

Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann rated it it was amazing
almost 5 years ago

Shelves: 1980s , award-nominee , nordamerika , adventure , cyberpunk , dystopian , fantasy , fiktion , hollywood , kurzgeschichte , male-protagonist , outer-space , own , wissenschaft , science-fiction , speculative-fiction , apocalyptic , author-male , bizarre , computer , drug , dunkle , dramen , series , surrealism , technik , space-opera , romane , violentia

This is the fist time I have read anything by William Gibson and I have to say since I have already purchased each book in the Sprawl Trilogy I am really excited to read some more by him, especially Neuromancer; being next on the William Gibson list!