Burning Chrome is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction. A good amount of the stories happen in the Sprawl fictional location, invented by Gibson and center of his popular Sprawl Trilogy. Originally published in 1986, this book includes some of the best known stories of the cyberpunk subgenre: Johnny Mnemonic (which would also become a movie of the same title, directed by Robert Longo and starring Keanu Reeves, who would later become popular thanks to the Matrix Trilogy), Fragments of a Hologram Rose (Gibson's first published work, originally published in 1977), New Rose Hotel and The Gernsback Continuum. While most of the stories are penned by William Gibson alone, some others are written together with somebody else.Technical description:
Title: Burning Chrome.
Author: William Gibson.
Publisher: Harper Collins.
Edition: reprint, paperback edition, London (UK), 1995 (1986).
Pages: 220 pages.
ISBN: 0-00-648043-8
