Burning ChromeBurning Chrome is a collection of short stories, ranging from conventional science fiction to cyberpunk novellas of the 'Sprawl'-series. 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. |
Contents
Preface by Bruce Sterling | 1 |
The Gernsback Continuum | 28 |
Fragments of a Hologram Rose | 41 |
Copyright | |
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