Fiction | short story collection | adult | published in 1982. An analysis of symbolism and virtual realities. In 'burning chrome,' william gibson weaves a tapestry of rich symbolism, immersing. Web‘burning chrome’ is a 1982 short story by the author william gibson, who is widely considered the father of cyberpunk. Webit was hot, the night we burned chrome. Out in the malls and plazas, moths were batting themselves to death against the neon, but in bobby’s loft the only light came from a. Webburning chrome, first published in 1986, collects ten of his early short stories. Three of them were cowritten with genre luminaries john shirley, bruce sterling,.
