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This is the master blogpost for the short story “The Last White Man” by Robert Howard. The Non-Spoiler Review is here
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This blogpost is about my personal background and why I started this blog. Who am I? My name is Zeke Berk (not my real name). I am a lifelong reader and writer. In grade school I wrote a short movie script as part of a class project in 6th grade…
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This blogpost post is about the character of Automatic Jack, the narrator in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. Automatic Jack The narrator is called Automatic Jack. The name “Jack” is a typical William Gibson cyberpunk main character: it signals that the narrator is your…
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This blogpost is about the character Bobby Quine in Burning Chrome by William Gibson. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. What does Bobby Quine Look Like Gibson describes Bobby Quine’s physical description in two ways. First, he describes him as a a “thin, pale dude with dark glasses.” In…
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This blogpost is about the character Rikki Wildside in Burning Chrome. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. Rikki Wildside: Skin Deep And Paper THin Rikki is 19 and apparently a bar girl. Bobby Quine, the console cowboy, meets her in the bar, the Gentleman Loser. He takes her home…
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This blogpost is about the character of Finn the Fence in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome. For the master blogpost of Burning Chrome see here. Finn the Fence – what A Name Finn is a fence. He runs a marketplace of stolen goods. He is a major character in Neuromancer but…
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This blogpost is about the character Chrome in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. The Girl With The Heart-Shaped Face Despite being the target of out protagonists, and thus the villain, Chrome is described in the physical world until halfway through the story. The first…
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This blogpost is about how William Gibson physically describes the Matrix in Burning Chrome. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. Electronic Consensus-HalluCINATION Early on in Burning Chrome Gibson describes the Matrix as an electronic consensus-hallucination that facilitates the exchange of massive quantities of data. The phrase electronic consensus-hallucination has…
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This blogpost is about Chuck Palahniuk’s untitled “Woke Western” work in progress. Woke Western On his substack Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, openly contemplated writing a Woke Western. This is of coarse a very stupid idea, but it is worth examining because it reveals a lot about modern cultural…
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This blogpost is about the House of Blue Lights in Burning Chrome. The Burning Chrome master blogpost is here. House Of Blue Lights The House of Blue Lights is a neuroelectronic sex shop, a sort of brothel of the mind. It’s revealed that Chrome, the person/thing they are trying to…