Burning Chrome

p Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, iBurning Chrome/i collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome." /p

Ten brilliant, streetwise, high-resolution stories from the man who coined the word icyberspace/i. Gibson's vision has become a touchstone in the emerging order of the 21st Century, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of iJohnny Mnemonic/i to the technofetishist blues of iBurning Chrome/i. 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.