New Rose Hotel
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| Author | William Gibson |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Series | Burning Chrome |
| Genre(s) | cyberpunk |
| Released | |
| Preceded by | Red Star, Winter Orbit |
| Followed by | The Winter Market |
New Rose Hotel is a short story by William Gibson, first published in 1981 in Omni and later included in his 1986 collection Burning Chrome. Set in the near future, the story provides the reader with a glimpse into the niche criminal market of corporate defections. Massive multinational corporations control and dominate entire economies. Their wealth and competitive advantage reside in the human capital of their employees and the intellectual property they produce. Corporations jealously guard their most valuable employees and go to great expense to keep them safe and happily productive.
There is little point in traditional corporate espionage as new products are developed at a lightning pace. There is no time to capitalize on the intelligence acquired from a rival firm. Here is where the protagonists of the story come into play, setting themselves up as shady middle-men in the world of corporate defections. Key scientists are cajoled, lured, bribed, and blackmailed into leaving their firms. Those that cannot be acquired thusly are eliminated whenever possible.
New Rose Hotel presents a bleak future as extrapolated from current economic and social trends. Set in the same period and universe as Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, it is solidly cyberpunk in its style and vision.
The short story was adapted for film by director Abel Ferrara as New Rose Hotel (1998 film).
Novels: The Sprawl Trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive • The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) • The Bridge trilogy: Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties • Pattern Recognition • Spook Country
Short stories Johnny Mnemonic • The Gernsback Continuum • Fragments of a Hologram Rose • The Belonging Kind • Hinterlands • Red Star, Winter Orbit • New Rose Hotel • The Winter Market • Dogfight • Burning Chrome • Skinner's Room
Film adaptations: Johnny Mnemonic • New Rose Hotel • Pattern Recognition
Miscellanea: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) • No Maps for These Territories • X-Files episodes
