Status Updates From Burning Chrome

Dogfight - Broken protagonist finds obsession in a holographic WW I air combat game, working his way up - reminds me of Vincent in The Color of Money - not caring about people he steps on along the way. Finally getting to the “top” realizing he has absolutely no one to be happy for him.

Haven't had much luck with cyberpunk in the past, but I was willing to try this out since it's a collection of short stories and I can bail on any one that's too painful. Ten pages in, and I'm on a razor's edge between delight at the inventive prose and hatred of its near incomprehensibility.

Winter Market - drug addicted paraplegic records her nightmares becoming a new media superstar, and Casey - the narrator - is her editor. A paragraph that gobsmacked me had to do with people who don’t read the manual, and find unimagined ways to use new technologies.

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