6/28/2023 0 Comments Gibson william burning chrome![]() He buys her a return ticket as well but she never uses it. She uses her earnings to buy a set of cybernetic eye implants for herself and go to Hollywood however, Jack uses his money to switch her plane ticket to Chiba City, where Rikki has always dreamed of going. The break-in is successful, and Jack and Bobby empty Chrome's bank accounts, but they discover afterward that Rikki had been working in a brothel with ties to Chrome. Bobby suggests that they use it to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal known as Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Jack reluctantly agrees to help. Jack has acquired a powerful Russian "icebreaker" program that can penetrate corporate security systems. Bobby becomes infatuated with a girl named Rikki and wants to become wealthy in order to impress her. "Burning Chrome" tells the story of two freelance hackers-Automatic Jack, the narrator and a hardware specialist and Bobby Quine, a software expert. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1983 and collected with the rest of Gibson's early short fiction in a 1986 volume of the same name. 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"). " Burning Chrome" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer William Gibson, first published in Omni in July 1982. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Short story by William Gibson "Burning Chrome" ![]()
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