![]() ![]() ![]() Chrome, it turns out, is a powerful woman in the mob world, who worked her way up from sex work and drug dealing to become a well-connected career criminal. Along with his friend and fellow hacker, a twenty-eight year-old man named Bobby Quine, Jack is trying to hack into a system so he can steal money from a powerful criminal: the ‘Chrome’ of the story’s title. The story is narrated by a professional computer hacker, Automatic Jack. It’s the first Gibson I ever read, and I was immediately hooked. This story – which is often cited as the first place where the term ‘cyberspace’ was used in print – is dense in its imagery and symbolism, so some words of analysis may help to illuminate it. The story was first published in the science-fiction magazine Omni before being collected in Gibson’s first short-story collection, which is also called Burning Chrome. ‘Burning Chrome’ is a 1982 short story by the author William Gibson, who is widely considered the father of cyberpunk. ![]()
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