Burning Chrome

"Burning Chrome"
Short story by William Gibson
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Cyberpunk
Publication
Published inOmni, Burning Chrome
Publication dateJuly 1982
Chronology
 
"The Belonging Kind"
 
"Red Star, Winter Orbit"

"Burning Chrome" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer William Gibson, first published in Omni in July 1982. Gibson first read the story at a science fiction convention in Denver, Colorado in the autumn of 1981, to an audience of four people, among them Bruce Sterling (who Gibson later said "completely got it").[1] It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1983[2] and collected with the rest of Gibson's early short fiction in a 1986 volume of the same name.

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  2. ^ The Locus Index to SF Awards. Archived February 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine