Count Zero - William Gibson

Count Zero

By William Gibson

  • Release Date: 1987-04-01
  • Genre: High Tech Sci-Fi
Score: 4.5
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Description

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future.

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....

Reviews

  • A Tale Well Told

    5
    By RobCrowe
    Less of a congerie of story and ideas but still WG is not afraid to dare the reader not to believe. Bobby aka Count Zero (Interrupt) is almost the def of an unlikely hero. AM more so, and his designation is because she saved him (or her loa) but while hackers want to see themselves in him, he is actually not adequate and actually a trial subject. He survived but it was luck or a fillip. He does come to learn that what he wants to be does not come by magix but he knows he is never going ro be as prepRed as all his mentors who basically thre him to thw wolves to see what happen. Zed by comparisk gets teai training. But jis conflict is so much bigger.

  • Faster Than The First

    4
    By kayleejm
    Still compelling, but paced more erratically than the first.

  • 100 Words or Less

    3
    By JRubino
    When reading Gibson, prepare yourself for complete confusion during the first 50 pages. Just accept it. With techno-babble, slang, half-filled descriptions … you’re going to be lost. Oh, it’s a good lost, but it’s still lost. However, once past that threshold, he does bring it all together. Suddenly the verbiage makes sense. The characters start congealing. Then it takes off with a rush. This novel works on that same level, though I felt the ending seemed stilted. The complicated build-up fell apart in the last 20 pages or so. That’s too bad. The middle part of this book is excellent.

  • Long time Gibson fan

    5
    By Aarphacker
    Neuromancer is the first book I purchased on my iPad. Seems only fair. It is unfortunate that Apple does not compete with Ono-Sendai in decks. Be prepared for superb descriptions of context and speculative fiction that has aged very gracefully over the years. In my opinion he is one of the greatest living fiction writers, but what does an old geek know! He also has an uncanny sense of the grit of technology, how it enrapts and enslaves simultaneously, weaving desirable dystopias. Gibson provides so much texture in his books and in his blogs and tweets. A blog he wrote hooked me on FieldNotes - best pencils in the world, though I will use them less with my iPad. This has become somewhat of a tradition for me, since when I purchased my nook I bought Neuromancer.

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