Ha, note the username. Well I'm in the process of revising for my mid semester exams at Uni. If anyone's studied Burning Chrome, (I'm doing the titled story within the anthology) or if you're just plain interested in the novel please right back. I'd be interested to get points other than my own and my lecturer's! I'm not just cadging to get out of work I'd like to converse if possible. Well let me know if you have something to say, Chrome

I have a dim memory of reading something about a theatrical version of Burning Chrome, any body ever hear about this or see the play?

http://burningcity.com/CB_WG_P1.html

....Was chronicled in an interview of WG by Clive Barker. The site's still up, which is a minor Net-miracle, considering how old the content is (I can remember reading this interview exactly five houses and two provinces ago, which should make things as clear as mud. Anyway.) Hope this helps!

Yelena

I saw the play yesterday, DuPaul Univesity currently has a production of it out untill the end of the week.

It's an pretty good adaptation of the story. The play is about two hours long. The first half kind of dragged on a bit, but the second half was a bang up job.

If you thought Bobby is twice the asshole in play than he was in the book. Jack is about the same. Finn is the same except he has Jones the dolphin from "Johnny Mnemonic" and he plays board games with it. Rikki is more of a bitch in the play than see was nieve in the book. Miles is now the bar tender of the Gentlemen's Loser and was in the war with Jack.

It's nice to know people are still coming to my site for the play. (http://burningcity.com/live_chrome.html) After pressuring a couple of writing pals, Steve Pickering and Charley Sherman, for 10 years to adapt a Gibson story for the stage, they finally did it. I was the dramaturg (researcher of all things Gibson and cyberpunk), cyber-prop designer (simstims, VR helmets, etc.) and website builder. Our production of the play was tighter than the DePaul version, which I saw last night, by about 30 minutes. It was interesting seeing someone else produce the play. Another production of the script was done a couple of years ago in LA. I had met Bill at Art Futura in Barcelona in 1990 and he was kind enough to be very supportive of the play and do an interview for the play's site. We got Clive Barker to be the interviewer, as we had adapted some of his works for the stage prior to doing Chrome. The two of them were both finishing books at the time (I think Bill was completing "All Tomorrow's Parties") and they spent an hour and half talking about everything from web porn, drugs and the internet to how harrowing and emotionally draining it is to finish writing a book. I'll keep the site up forever, if possible, and link it to our new adaption site at http://shanghailow.com.

Shit. Now I want to go to Illinois.

Yelena

personally i thought it was abysmal. aside from the set design, there wasn't much likeable about it. the actual adaptation might be passable with a different production, i don't know. the actress playing rikki wasn't much of an actress, and i thought they butchered the finn horribly - though i think that was more the director than the actor. their choice of music was suspect and the lightining a little over the top. on the positive side, the actor playing jack managed an ok turn, and most of the plot survived intact, though a little the worse for wear.

There is advantage in wisdom won from pain.

I'm not defending the play, but how many old ulgy guys are in college

I first read "Burning Chrome" in OMNImagazine waaaaaaaaay back when. I was somewhat under the influence at the time, so even though it blew my mind, I forgot it almost immediately. 'Bout a year later I was in a creative writing class and started a sci-fi story about a group of Japanese university students who plot to kill one of their professors, only to find out he was a computer-generated hologram.

Never did finish the story, but after cyberpunk started making a name for itself, I spent years thinking I'd been on the cusp of something big. If only I'd finished the story, and all that.

Flash forward to about 1996. I'm in the process of moving, find the OMNIin a box, and end up reading the story again.

Needless to say, I'm crushed.

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Originally posted by Chrome:
Ha, note the username. Well I'm in the process of revising for my mid semester exams at Uni. If anyone's studied Burning Chrome, (I'm doing the titled story within the anthology) or if you're just plain interested in the novel please right back. I'd be interested to get points other than my own and my lecturer's! I'm not just cadging to get out of work I'd like to converse if possible. Well let me know if you have something to say, Chrome

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Hello Chrome
I am studying the book myself, and there are a lot of things to say about it... specially the short story itself. Is there a particular theme you are working on ?