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From: Rob MacLachlan 


    Is there any similar connection with "Burning Chrome"?  (I have a
    hunch that the deck jockey might be the same one from "Burning
    Chrome", but I can't check it out right now.)

I believe that they have different names.  I remember getting the
distinct impression that "Neuromancer" occurs some years after
"Burning Chrome".  I believe that one of my reasons for beleiveing
this was that in "Burning Chrome", the coyboy's sidekick (who hacked
his hardware), lost his arm in the same ill-fated attack against the
USSR that Wintermute's agent was in, yet the former was young and the
latter was moderately old.

The Gentleman Loser (bar) is definitely the same.  I remeber wondering
if the junk-shop guy who had the virus program in "Buring Chrome" was
the same as the similar character in "Neuromancer", but I didn't
bother to check.

  Rob