Short Story· 1986· Science Fiction
Burning Chrome: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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The film adapts "Johnny Mnemonic", a story in Gibson's collection, about a courier who carries stolen data in an implant in his head. Gibson wrote the screenplay himself, and the film expands the story's few pages into a chase across a plague-ridden future.
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Several stories in Gibson's collection share the world of the Sprawl novels: "Johnny Mnemonic" introduces Molly Millions, who returns in Neuromancer, and "Burning Chrome" and "New Rose Hotel" are set in the same corporate future of cyberspace, Chiba City and hired killers. The story "Burning Chrome" first used the word cyberspace.