Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

For the longest time I refused to read "cyberpunk", I was pretty snotty and self-righteous about it. Frankly, I feel like half the time I live that stuff. The graphics aren't as cool, the world isn't as exciting, but I'm doing the sort of work that the Wired set is fauning over. It gets a bit tiresome to hear how glamourous it is, because it's not.
Anyway, that's the snottiness. Now I regret it, because I've missed some really great writing. Burning Chrome is a collection of incredible short stories, tight and colourful. The stories themselves are good, but it's the way Gibson communicates that is the strength here. I read Neuromancer several years ago and it didn't make an impression, why I'm not sure. Burning Chrome definitely did, though - maybe Gibson's just more at home in short stories?