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Amazon.com Review 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. From Publishers Weekly In his enthusiastic description of the '30s and '40s ''moderne'' style of industrial design (featured in one of these stories), Gibson might be writing about his own work: ''The change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you'd find the same Victorian mechanism . . . . It was all a stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future.'' That dexterous, shallow artifice has won Gibson awards and fervent fans (especially for his first novel, Neuromancer but beneath it is something old, worn and tired. Thus ''Johnny Mnemonic,'' whose body computer stores secret information, is just a variation of Mr. Memory from Th

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Author

Gibson, William

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062273017

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Collections

Rating

4.05 / 5 (27,745 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14