New Rose Hotel

Gibson, William. "New Rose Hotel." Omni July 1984. Coll. Burning Chrome. New York: Arbor House, 1986. New York: Ace, 1987.

See for zaibatsu(s)—multinational corporations—as Earth's "dominant form of intelligence," with information for blood: "Corporation as life form" (107); and for the defection of a scientist as "a complicated business, intricate as the brass gears and sliding mirrors of Victorian stage magic" (110), "the oiled play of Victorian clockwork." "NRH" has been made into a movie. (RDE, 01/12/00)