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From: garvey@blic.BLI.COM (Robert Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Who is J. Mnemonic?
Message-ID: <131@blic.BLI.COM>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 10:58:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 10:58:08 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 23:21:46 EDT
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Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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Summary: details on Wm. Gibson's stories
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In article <890@uhccux.UUCP>, keith@uhccux.UUCP (Keith Kinoshita) writes:
> In article <1284@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> thoward%cgu.cs.man.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Toby Howard) writes:
> >Who or what is Johnny Mnemonic?
> >
> That's a short story written by William Gibson (Neuromancer,Count Zero)
> quite awhile ago.  I don't remember the details, but it predates Neuromancer.

William Gibson wrote three stories with the near-future world that was
later the setting for _Neuromancer_ and _Count Zero_.  Omni published
``Johnny Mnemonic'', ``New Rose Hotel'', and ``Burning Chrome'' in
1981, 1982, and 1985 respectively.  The title of the last is also the
title of a collection of short stories by William Gibson, the Ace
paperback (ISBN 0-441-08934-8) published this month, October of 1987.

_Burning Chrome_ is a good introduction for those unfamiliar with
William Gibson's work.  The three stories set in the Sprawl are
especially interesting if you've read _Neuromancer_ and _Count Zero_.

-- 
Robert Garvey
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