Quemando Cromo

Hardcover, 225 pages

Spanish language

Published July 6, 1995 by Minotauro.

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Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's.

Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Dogfight / by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson -- Burning chrome.

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"Johnny Mnemonic"

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El movimiento cyberpunk fue básicamente el despertar de la ciencia ficción a la realidad: el futuro hipertecnológico tan esperado estaba llegando, y no se parecía en nada a nuestros sueños.

Es más, era una pesadilla.

Ni siquiera nos hacía el favor de ser una distopía o un apocalipsis, era peor que eso.

El futuro hipertecnológico era mediocre, triste, corrupto, sucio y con olor a mierda entre los chips y los implantes biológicos.

Y la ciencia ficción tenía que hacer algo con eso.

Así, en los 80s, entre camperas con corderito y películas de Robert Zemeckis, los autores cyberpunk escribían sobre mafias transnacionales controlando el flujo de tados, fingerprints digitales que permiten ubicar a cualquier persona, fake news, dinero digital, y ciberespacio.

Y cabe señalar que la Internet apenas se había inventado.

"Jonny Menmonic" es un ejemplo canónico de la literatura de Gibson en su versión más harcore

Leímos "Johnny Mnemonic" …

Review of 'Burning chrome' on 'Storygraph'

Burning Chrome collects Gibson's short fiction into a great, tight bundle. It is all tied together and flows nicely, and it shows his evolution as a writer. Even his early work and the bits I like less are all exactly where they should be. While Gibson is a better novelist IMHO, his short fiction still packs a punch. Well worth reading for any Gibson fans, but perhaps lacking without the context of his longer works.

Of the stories within, Johnny Mnemonic and Burning Chrome are my favorites, and their traces are seen in Neuromancer and Stephenson's The Diamond Age.

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