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Short Story: Fragments of A Hologram Rose: "Gibson's first published fiction, it tells the story of a jilted ex-lover who relies on artificial sense-recordings to sleep, in a dark, polluted city." (Wikipedia description)

Short Story: Johnny Mnemonic: "Johnny Mnemonic is a data trafficker who has undergone cybernetic surgery to have a data storage system implanted in his head. The system allows him to store digital data too sensitive to risk transmission on computer networks. To keep the cargo secure, the data is locked by a password known only to the intended recipient." (Wikipedia description)

Short Story: The Gernsback Continuum: "During his assignment to photograph 1950's era futuristic architecture, Parker begins to come into contact with the "continuum," an alternate reality containing the possible future of the world represented by the architecture he is photographing a future that could have been, but was not, thereby contrasting modernist optimism and postmodern loneliness." (Wikipedia description)

Short Story: The Winter Market: "The theme of the story primarily concerns the concept of technological immortality, in which one's consciousness is separated from the body and "uploaded" into cyberspace, where it continues to think and function on its own." (Wikipedia description)

Short Story: Burning Chrome: "It tells the story of two hackers who hack systems for profit." (Wikipedia description)

Short Story: The Belonging Kind: "Coretti meets a woman in a bar who seems to fit perfectly there. He follows her to various other bars and clubs, watching as she constantly drinks and talks with a companion of hers, her appearance and clothing shifting to let her fit in wherever she goes. Coretti spots the man secreting money from some kind of pocket, and realizes that he's discovered a new kind of creature, one that has adapted to modern society more completely than any cockroach, fueled by the alcohol of a hundred bars." (Wikipedia description)