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9. Current UK Kindle: Burning Chrome (ASIN B01BKS2X2S)- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
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10. Current UK Ebook: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9781473217454)
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
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11. Some German Edition: Cyberspace (ASIN B00TYGLTTM)
- The language is incorrect. It should be German.
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12. Subterranean Press Limited Edition: /book/show/5...
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- David Ho needs to be added with the Illustrator role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
William Gibson is a winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. An inductee of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, he’s been recognized as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. His celebrated, much-awarded debut novel, Neuromancer (1984) announced him to the wider world, but it was the stories in Burning Chrome, the collection originally published in 1986, that first established him as a star in the firmament of science fiction.
The stories gathered in Burning Chrome range across a spectrum of post-modern human experience, exploring everything from space travel to surveillance culture to late capitalism.
Among the ten futures here, we find these:
In “Johnny Mnemonic,� the title character, a famously technical boy, encounters razorgirls, assassins, and a cybernetically enhanced dolphin, in a fast-paced story, the first to be set in the Sprawl of Gibson’s first three novels.
In “The Gernsback Continuum,� Gibson ferociously deconstructs the banalities and limitations of the rocketships-and-rayguns futures that came close to strangling American science fiction in its infancy.
And in the title story, “Burning Chrome,� the lives of people living at the interface of technology and criminality are revealed as tendentious, yes, but also as exemplary of the challenges of any human relationships, whether they’re being played out in the past, the present, or a future that was the first to include “cyberspace,� a term Gibson coined for this story.
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13. UK Mass Market Paperback A: /book/show/2...
- The publication date is incorrect. Can’t find a specific month or day, but the copyright page says 1993.
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, taken from the first page of the book:
In a very short time William Gibson has become widely recognized as the leading writer of a new kind of science fiction, extrapolating contemporary technology (particularly computer technology) into a future of urban decay and the social mores of a post-punk generation. This is his first collection of short stories.
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14. UK Mass Market Paperback B: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780586074619)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should just be Voyager.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the unchallenged guru, prophet, and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality. The stories, with their vivid cast of lowlife characters in an intensely realized high-tech world, paint an instantly recognizable portrait of the modern predicament.
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15 Ace Books Mass Market Paperback C: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780441089345)
- The description should be the same as Entry 6.
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- Several of the stories in this collection were written in collaboration with other authors; John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, and Michael Swanwick. I’m not sure what Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ policy is on adding co-authors if they only contributed to specific stories, and it would be a huge task, but if any librarians would like to do so, you can probably add Shirley, Sterling, and Swanwick with the Contributor or Co-Author role.
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2. Current US Paperback Edition: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780060539825)
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- According to the back cover and the title page, the publisher is incorrect. It should be Eos.
- There isn’t a description anywhere on or in the book, so the description should be taken from the publisher site or Amazon page. I’ve gone with the description on Amazon, because the publisher site description was written after this edition was published and namedrops Gibson novels that had not yet been written as of this edition’s publication:
Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of “Johnny Mnemonic� to the street-tech melancholy of “Burning Chrome.�
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2. US Kindle: Burning Chrome (ASIN B00ICMWZH4)
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today.
Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely realized worlds at their absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of “Johnny Mnemonic� to the street-tech melancholy of “Burning Chrome.�
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3. US Ebook: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780062273017)
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as Entry 2.
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4. UK Paperback: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9781473217447)
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The description is incomplete. It should include the following paragraph at the top:
IT WAS HOT, THE NIGHT WE BURNED CHROME.
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5. 1995 Voyager Edition: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780006480433)
- The publisher should just be Voyager.
- “New Ed� should probably be removed from the Editions field since this is no longer the newest edition.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson’s vision has become a touchstone � not only within the genre. Gibson in the nineties is the unchallenged guru, prophet, and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality. The stories, with their vivid cast of lowlife characters in an intensely realized high-tech world, paint an instantly recognizable portrait of the modern predicament.
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6. Ace Books Mass Market Paperback A: /book/show/9...
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
William Gibson’s dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are his most famous short fiction and novellas. Hard-edged. Merciless. Passionate. They are vintage Gibson.
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7. Ace Books Mass Market Paperback B: /book/show/1...
- Bruce Sterling needs to be added with the Preface role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Ten brilliant, high-resolution stories from the man who invented the term cyberspace. From the chip-enhanced couriers of Johnny Mnemonic to the street-tech melancholy of Burning Chrome, Gibson’s characters and their intensely realized worlds become instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition.
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8. First Edition Hardcover: Burning Chrome (ISBN 9780877957805)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
Last year William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, stunned the SF field and won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Nebula Award for best novel, a feat never before achieved. Now, as his second novel, Count Zero, a pyrotechnic work set in the same future universe as Neuromancer, has just been published, Arbor House is proud to present Gibson’s collected short fiction: Burning Chrome.
The science fiction stories of William Gibson have taken the SF field by storm. Nominated for all the major awards, these stories present the work of the most-acclaimed new talent in SF of the decade. Originally printed in a variety of magazines and anthologies, now sought-after by hordes of fans, such stories as “Johnny Mnemonic,� “New Rose Hotel,� “Hinterlands,� and the stunning title story, “Burning Chrome,� set a new standard of murderous transcendence for SF in the 1980’s.
Burning Chrome collects all of Gibson’s shorter work to date, including his collaborations with other exciting new writers who, together with Gibson have formed a controversial aesthetic movement, often referred to as “the cyberpunk movement.� Burning Chrome is an event for SF readers everywhere and one of the most important SF books of the year.