Status Updates From Burning Chrome

"Hinterlands" Getting a little Lovecraftian with it! This one was kind of horrible, which I enjoyed

"Red Star, Winter Orbit" almost comfortingly mundane after "Hinterlands" interesting and an easy read, but lacking punch for me

"The Belonging Kind" I like this one a lot! I've been reading a lot of Laird Barron lately and this was less grotesque and nasty, but it still evoked some of the same feelings of Barron's "The Broadsword" or other stories about creatures masquerading as humans

"Fragments of a Hologram Rose" the ASPs here had to have been a huge influence on Strange Days (1995)

"The Gernsback Continuum" a weird one! Call me a plebe but this did a lot less for me than the first story. No one even exploded and there was no marine life on drugs anywhere

"Johnny Mnemonic" THAT WAS FUCKING DOPE. CYBERPUNK OWNS

(Bruce Sterling) If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters.

the winter market

Rubin reminds me a lot of Rick Rubin; if this hadn’t come out in 1985 i would be convinced it was intentional