Burning Chrome (short story collection)  Burning Chrome (1986) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson. Most of the stories take place in Gibson's Sprawl, a shared setting for most of his cyberpunk work. Many of the ideas and themes explored in the short stories were later revisited in Gibson's popular Sprawl trilogy. "Burning Chrome" includes:  J. Michael Caparula reviewed "Burning Chrome" in "Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer" No. 82. Caparula commented that "This is vital reading; harsh, gritty, complex, visionary."