Burning Chrome by William Gibson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Burning Chrome
Book Review: Not Free SF Reader
Summary: 4 Stars
A definitely good collection of stories, basically set in and around the milieu and style of his famous novel of the time.
Burning Chrome : Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Fragments of a Hologram Rose - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Belonging Kind - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Hinterlands - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Red Star Winter Orbit - Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
Burning Chrome : New Rose Hotel - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : The Winter Market - William Gibson
Burning Chrome : Dogfight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
Burning Chrome : Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Memory boy, samurai girl, cyborg dolphin hook up.
4 out of 5
Not a fan of retro sf design.
4 out of 5
Movies feel real.
3 out of 5
Blending search.
3.5 out of 5
Space spies for alien machines.
3.5 out of 5
Cosmonaut crapout space station hitchhikers.
4 out of 5
Biology sprint.
3.5 out of 5
Diseased girl disappearance upload.
3 out of 5
Gonna pay for the pilot enhancement.
3.5 out of 5
Cracking victim charity.
4 out of 5
Book Review: Slick and Varied
Summary: 5 Stars
From Red Star Winter Orbit to the title story Burning Chrome, Gibson serves up short and smooth stories. If your looking for something to kick back with while waiting for your bus or plane(as I did) this collection from Gibson is perfect. It just added to my memories of roughing it on the streets of LA.Book Review: Solid, introductory selections
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a short collection of some of Gibson's only short stories and provides a pretty solid glimpse into the cyberpunk genre. The stories themselves often seem a bit incomplete, a little fragmented at times, they were Gibson's early attempts at writing. Some of the other stories such as 'Dogfight' and 'Burning Chrome' are excellent in idea and execution. A good read overall.Book Review: Technodrivel
Summary: 1 Stars
Rarely if ever do I feel the need to put a book away before i even get through half of it. This was ridiculousBook Review: There are No Maps For These QuickSilver Territories
Summary: 5 Stars
It can be stated that it is worthy for one to learn English only to be able to read NEW ROSE HOTEL in the original. No translation can do justice to Gibson's fresh prose. I realize that the cannon-setters might not agree, however, for me, these are the BEST 28 pages ever written in English. With Gibson SF entered its Golden Age.
All of the short stories contained are excellent. However, my favorites are all of the three Sprawl ones: JOHNY MNEMONIC, NEW ROSE HOTEL and BURNING CHROME; at par is the Soviet retro (nowadays) HINTERLANDS.
Never before or since have I came upon comparable poetic dreamscapes of futuristic noir dystopia. The images are so concentrated they just burst from the reader's mind to create a detailed alternative reality. And it is not that the Novels are diluted - they are just more of the good stuff!
My advice: read BURNING CHROME *AFTER* the famous trilogy (NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO, MONA LISA OVERDRIVE). They will help you understand the precursor ideas for the rich atmospheric world that followed.
[Do not watch the NEW ROSE HOTEL movie. Do so for JOHNY MNEMONIC neither. They do no justice to these literature gems].
Highly Recommended!