Burning Chrome

By: William Gibson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Dennis Holland, Kevin Pariseau, Victor Bevine, Jay Snyder, Brian Nishii, L. J. Ganser, Oliver Wyman, Eric Michael Summerer, Marc Vietor

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.

©2003 William Gibson (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Ten brilliant, streetwise, high-resolution stories from the man who coined the word cyberspace. Gibson's vision has become a touchstone in the emerging order of the 21st Century, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. With their vividly human characters and their remorseless, hot-wired futures, these stories are simultaneously science fiction at its sharpest and instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition." (Amazon.com review)

Interesting and diverse collection of sci-fi stories

The variety of stories and narrators makes for a breezy listen for when you are in the mood for some entertainment and some thought-provoking content.

A Mixed Bag

This volume contains two of Gibson's most legendary short stories; Johnny Mnemonic and Burning Chrome. It's worth getting for Johnny Mnemonic and a few of the lesser known stories (Red Star, Winter Orbit and New Rose Hotel being personal favorites). Don't get me wrong, the titular story is great, but they should have just done it first. It's not the greatest performance, and it's following some damn tough acts.

A stellar collection

This is a great collection of short stories for two reasons. 1) Most of the stories stand on their own merit as great SciFi. I particularly enjoyed Jonny Mnemonic, Dog Fight and Burning Chrome. 2) This is a great collection for Gibson fans to see the early development of ideas he brought so vividly to life in Neuromancer and other works. Techno-Noir at its finest.

Burning Chrome

this is all the backstory behind Neuromancer. Johnny Mnemonic burning Chrome and the rest, they all add up to one world. one Visionary bringing the separate stories together. nice collection.

Spotty with flashes of light . . . 😱

5 is very good.
4 is good.
3 is OK.
Ok is what this is. Some themes show promise but ultimately disappoint.
Read it is you're a fan or a completist. 😱

Gibson is a god

this collection I listened to well after multiple listening and reads of the sprawl trilogy. I love the nuggets that are from some of the short stories you get to pick up. I also enjoyed the non trilogy related stories as well but in my heart I love Gibson for the sprawl.

A Collection of Wm Gibson Short Stories

Very good. Some didn’t age well, and the pro-USSR tone of his early works is pretty prominent in some of these stories. They were all interesting though, some were amazing (conceptually), and some show hints, ideas, or influences to his later works after they were fleshed-out and refined. Most obvious is “Burning Chrome” itself, which fits right into the Sprawl trilogy, even using some of the characters from “Count Zero” and “Mona Lisa Overdrive”.

If you are a Gibson fan, especially a Sprawl or Bridge trilogy fan, you should certainly read/listen to these stories.

A depth of authenticity to Gibson’s Sci-Fi

These short stories are great. Stubs of imagination and themes that fill out in his longer works. Even a surprise short johnny mnemonic is in here. Pleasant surprise to me I guess because I didn’t read the table of contents. Some of them are in the same vein of his Sprawl trilogy (count zero, Neuromancer, mona Lisa overdrive). Enjoyed the whole book. Thanks!

Wonderful

Not all the stories are “great”, but enough are. I enjoyed this book more than I have any other in a long time.

A Classic

Foundational stories in the Cyberpunk genre. Noir struggles in a techno advanced future... with solid prose to boot.