Burning Chrome is a selection of short stories by esteemed science fiction author William Gibson. Most people see science fiction as some sort of \u201clesser\u201d genre that deals only with robots, space travel, and aliens; has no real literary value, and appeals primarily to geeks and Star Trek fans, but Gibson\u2019s work is nothing like that. While he may use typical \u201csci-fi\u201d objects and settings as backdrops for his stories, his writing is superb and his messages are just as relevant as any great author\u2019s. Some of my personal favorites are \u201cThe Gernsback Continuum,\u201d a story about a photographer who has strange hallucinations of a \u201cfuture\u201d that never existed, and \u201cHinterlands,\u201d a story of a strange portal in space that has given humanity the cure for cancer, but every person who passes through it returns dead or insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Burning Chrome is a selection of short stories by esteemed science fiction author William Gibson. Most people see science fiction as some sort of \u201clesser\u201d genre that deals only with robots, space travel, and aliens; has no real literary value, and appeals primarily to geeks and Star Trek fans, but Gibson\u2019s work is nothing like … <\/p>\n