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William Gibson /1948 b./ is a Canadian writer of American descent, the founder of the literary, aesthetic and artistic movement known as cyberpunk, characterised by gloomy predictions for the near future of humanity, in which the role of governments will be transferred to powerful transnational corporations, the latest technology and information will become the greatest value, and people will plunge into the illusory world of virtual reality and modify their bodies and minds with cyber and bioimplants.

Today, William Gibson is the author of thirteen novels, including the famous Neuromancer, his debut novel that immediately outlined the boundaries of the cyberpunk genre, as well as many short stories, essays, plays, and screenplays.

William Gibson is the winner of a number of prestigious and world-famous science fiction awards: the Grandmaster of Science Fiction, the Hugo, the Nebula, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Dick Memorial Award, and in 2008 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

It was also William Gibson who coined and introduced the term "cyberspace", and it seems that he is in many ways the architect and visionary of our present and our near future.

William Gibson is rightly considered the father of cyberpunk, and many of his predictions made in the early 80s of the last century are only now beginning to come true or will soon become reality, as it is already clear that our world, one way or another, is moving roughly according to Gibson's scenario.

«Burn Chrome» is an author's collection of short stories that formed the classics of cyberpunk and give the best idea of this genre of science fiction.

The global Internet network, which is about to turn into the very Cyberspace, high-tech communications, in the labyrinths of which information wars are waged, information as the greatest value and at the same time the most powerful weapon of our time, virtual reality, overt and covert wars of corporations for domination over the latest technologies, and therefore over the world, modified human bodies and consciousnesses of a new level, artificial intelligences and ethical issues related to theirrsquo;associated with their existence, we have almost entered the world once described by Gibson, so it is useful to look a little further and find out what awaits humanity at the next turn of its history. This extraordinary cyberpunk classic gives us just such an opportunity.

Translated from English
Nata Grytsenko