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Mar 19, 2018
"It was hot the night we burned Chrome." With that sentence in the 1982 short story Burning Chrome, author William Gibson helped pioneer cyberpunk. Although Gibson is better known for the 1984 novel Neuromancer, it was his story "Burning Chrome" that coined the term cyberspace, changing how we look at computers and the virtual world. Both Neuromancer and Burning Chrome are among the stories and novels set in Gibson’s “Sprawl,” gritty urban areas that have survived economic collapse and wars and set the tone for other writers to follow.