Book 73: "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
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kittiwakeWe're an information economy. They teach you that at school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified . . .
The other stories in this book were science fiction, but "The Belonging Kind" would probably be best described as horror (even though nothing too scary actually happened). My favourites were "The Gernsback Continuum" and "The Winter Market", and I probably liked the title story least since the ice-breaker run through the matrix to burn Chrome seemed a bit samey after reading a couple of his novels recently.
The other stories in this book were science fiction, but "The Belonging Kind" would probably be best described as horror (even though nothing too scary actually happened). My favourites were "The Gernsback Continuum" and "The Winter Market", and I probably liked the title story least since the ice-breaker run through the matrix to burn Chrome seemed a bit samey after reading a couple of his novels recently.
