Nine brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time.

In them Gibson charts the unchecked rise of multinational corporations and the addictively transcendent potential of cyberspace. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson’s vision has become a universal touchstone. His lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future.

Lowlife characters, ghosts and hallucinations mingle to their mutual peril in the malls and plazas of an intensely realized holographic name-brand society. Cloned Ninja bodyguards and retro fashions, voodoo and deadly cyber criminals: here is a heady mix of imagery delivered with exaggerated clarity against a constant subliminal hum of high tech.

The Gernsback Continuum
Fragments of a Hologram Rose
The Belonging Kind
Hinterlands
Red Star, Winter Orbit
New Rose Hotel
The Winter Market
Dogfight
Burning Chrome