The story primarily concerns human relationships and their tenuous and problematic qualities by deploying the concept of technological immortality, in which one's consciousness is separated from the body and "uploaded" into a supercomputer, where it continues to think and function on its own. When the story was written, the retrofit was recent, and I dirtied it up for requisite punky near-future effect." As the author commented in a 2007 blog post: "Vancouver's Granville Island, centered around Granville Island Market (produce and food fair) is a very successful (and pleasant) retrofit of an under-bridge urban island that previously was heavily industrial. The market of the title was modelled on that of Granville Island, though in a state of bohemian decay. The story was commissioned in 1985 by Vancouver Magazine, who stipulated that Gibson – who at the time was "unquestionably the leading Vancouver author on the international literary scene" – set it in the city (thereby making it unique among the author's works). " The Winter Market" is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson and published as part of his Burning Chrome short story collection.
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