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Summary: Good but dissapointing
Review: A fascinating and excellent story however it did not meet my expectations. I thought Neuromancer was far better, an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10, but Burning Chrome failed to meet my expectations after I had read Neuro, Virtual Light, and Idoru before I read it. I haven't read Mona Lisa yet but I hope that he has picked his style up to his usual pace in it.
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Summary: Gibson takes a good idea and maintains it, unlike his novels
Review: Gibson is the kind of writer ,who, having hit upon a really good idea attempts to pan it out for an entire novel. The short story medium suits him a great deal better, as he can take what are essentially innovative ideas and utilise them is a short engaging way. He does not fall victim to the slow lumbering plot devices of the sprawl series. Gibson is not a great writer, In this collection of short stories he shows that he has many fine things to say about contemporary culture with occassional literary flourishes.
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Summary: THE GREATEST IN CYBER-PUNK IS RIGHT HERE
Review: I read and (shock horror) didn't like Neuromance, I then read this book. All I can say is BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT NOW!
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Summary: read THIS before any other gibson work.
Review: Being that i am a diehard gibson fan, i have read his entire sprawl series. the greatest thing Burning Chrome is that it has three prequels to the books in the sprawl series. Example: Johnny Mnemonic is the first appearance of molly (my personal fav cuz she kicks butt), who is also in neuromancer and mona lisa overdrive. read BC, then read the rest!
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Summary: Enjoy all of Gibson, but his short stories are the best
Review: I have enjoyed all five of Gibson's books that I have read. Usually, I need to read each book two or more times to understand everything that went on. With short stories, this is a much easier accomplishment. Though Johnny Nemonic was a good short story, it did not translate into a movie as well as many of the other stories would have. This is the best way for a non-sci-fi person to get into Gibson. Without spending too much time, you can learn whether you like his style.
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Summary: Gibson's best-written book
Review: Nestled between the white-hot defining Cyberpunk of Neuromancer and the flashy diamond life of Mona Lisa Overdrive, "Burning Chrome" is just a beautiful, wonderful thing, and easily the best written of the trilogy (and the Burning Chrome sprawl stories). E.g.: - The faces he woke with in the world's hotels were like God's own hood ornaments. - And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. Actually seeing Cornell boxes in the flesh (Seattle Art Museum) was a let-down after the evocative descriptions in the book: - The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. Gibson is off the scale on this book, especially on the third re-reading when you've learned the maze in Neuromancer and assembled the fragments in MLO. And although it lacks the classic cyberpunk edge, it has the best pure action sequence of all the books, heck, of anything made out of ASCII characters!: - And then he was in the cockpit, breathing the new-car smell of long-chain monomers, the familiar scent of newly minted technology, and the girl was behind him, an awkward doll sprawled in the embrace of the g-web that Conroy had paid a San Diego arms dealer to install behind the pilot's web. The plane was quivering, a live thing, and as he squirmed deeper into his own web, he fumbled for the interface cable, found it, ripped the microsoft from his socket, and slid the cable-jack home.
Knowledge lit him like an arcade game, and he surged forward with the plane-ness of the jet, feeling the flexible airframe reshape itself for jump-off as the canopy whined smoothly down on its servos. The g-web ballooned around him, locking his limbs rigid, the gun still in his hand. "Go, motherfucker." But the jet already knew, and g-force crushed him down into the dark. No one has ever done it better. (These quotes are from the Voyager electronic book presentation of Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive, one of the many Gibson artifacts listed in the most complete Gibson bibliography- mediagraphy on the Web, at www.slip.net/~spage/gibson/biblio.htm ).
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Summary: Kick-start for the worn-out sci-fi genre!
Review: Excellent read! Original themes, larger than life characters, and intense cityscapes. Gibson sets the standard in Science Fiction. Future authors will be hard-pressed to keep pace with Gibson's mastery and finesse. Throughout "The Sprawl" the echo lingers: "Gibson is God."
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Summary: Definitive Gibson. READ IT! LOVE IT!
Review: I read this collection a few years back and still have vivid memories of its stories and characters. I remember reading Johnny Mnemonic and thinking "Wow, some anime guru needs to get a copy of this!" As a matter of fact, most of the stories would make good animes. Think about it....
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Summary: I made money by buying this book!
Review: I am a Gibson fan and read everything he writes as soon as it comes out.
I read "Burning Chrome" in 1991 and thought, wow, let's turn
this into a grant proposal to ARPA! I generated a proposal
to ARPA and received $1.4M for my efforts. So I am very glad
I bought this book! Mike Zyda
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Summary: Better than darkest chocolate.
Review: From the very first word from the book I whispered, this story slowly takes a grip on you inward, then gently rocks you back and forth between the present and the past. The author, the story, sway and immerse you into the imagination that is beyond any other I have exprienced. Then, the climax is thrusted upon the reader with the utmost awesome sensation. Leaving you to a decision to reopen the pages again and again to take another peek to reread the story over and over.
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