Burning Chrome

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains not one person you love or know or have spoken to before."--The Winter Market (p.161)

Burning Chrome begins my 2017 William Gibson Read-Along. It's an excellent collection of short stories and has left me wondering why I didn't read it sooner. Gibson creates stunning worlds filled with giant, faceless corporations, bio-technology that feels solid and real, class division, alienation, and love, especially lost love. It's a book that soars with imagination yet also feels grounded by its characters. These are people we can relate to, people down on their luck trying their hardest to make it, hoping to rekindle the flame that burnt so brightly, pushing themselves to make that one final deal that will solve all their problems.

Highly recommended!