August Meeting: William Gibson - Burning Chrome

Recommended Stories:

• Burning Chrome
• Hinterlands
• Johnny Mnemonic

Second place by one vote in the July poll, we're reading Burning Chrome for August! This classic sci-fi collection from the late 70s - early 80s is from a pioneer of the "cyberpunk" subgenre. See you there! - Ben & Aly

For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.

About the collection:
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.