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| Original Title: | Count Zero |
| ISBN: | 0441013678 (ISBN13: 9780441013678) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sprawl #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1987), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1986), Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1987), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (1986) |
William Gibson
Paperback | Pages: 308 pages Rating: 4.01 | 42902 Users | 1110 Reviews

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| Title | : | Count Zero (Sprawl #2) |
| Author | : | William Gibson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 308 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2006 by Ace Books (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Cyberpunk. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Dystopia. Novels. Fantasy |
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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...Rating Of Books Count Zero (Sprawl #2)
Ratings: 4.01 From 42902 Users | 1110 ReviewsCommentary Of Books Count Zero (Sprawl #2)
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature."They plot with men, my other selves, and men imagine they are gods."Several years have passed since Molly and Case freed the AI who calls himself Neuromancer. Neuromancers been busy and now his plots have widened to involve several people whom we meet in Count Zero:Turner is a recently reconstructed mercenary whos been hired by the Hosaka Corporation to extract Christopher Mitchell and his daughter Angie from Mitchells job at Maas Biolabs. Mitchell is theEvery time I re-read the Sprawl trilogy, I speed through "Neuromancer" and, when I get to it, "Mona Lisa Overdrive;" but "Count Zero" usually holds me up for a month at least. This time it held me up for about five months (granted, I've been busy with various personal projects, work, and wasting time online). Whatever. Gibson is one of my all-time favorite writers, I worship the keys he types on (be they computer or typewriter); but reading "Count Zero" is like trying to run through knee-high
When I was maybe halfway through this book, I wrote this elsewhere:--------------------Its funny reading classic William Gibson now because he basically imagined a version of the internet that was much less life-changing than the actual internet."There will be instant electronic full VR communication but there will be no communities or subcultures in it, people will still just be friends in real life and then talk on the (video) phone sometimes. Using the internet is sort of like playing a video

This is the second volume of Sprawl trilogy. It was nominated for Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. I read as a part of the Sprawl chalenge in Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group.It is not a direct sequel, more a book set in the same world. The prose is still very dense and without clear preparations before each big plot turn/reveal, which makes it a very bad book for audio too often you have to look back to understand whats going on.The story starts with blowing up of a mercenary, Turner.
This is a "sequel" to Neuromancer. I use the term loosely.There's really 3 stories here that all tie together at the end.Marly, an art specialist, her world wracked by scandal, is a approached by an incredibly rich man and offered obscene amounts of money to track the origins of some art pieces he's interested in. But what has she really gotten herself into?Turner is a badass mercenary who does his job ruthlessly and efficiently. Now he's been hired by a man named Mitchell. But when it all goes
3 StarsWell, just like with Neurmonancer, William Gibsons amazing command of the English language, coupled with his incredible writing style was not enough for me to love Count Zero. It is very well written, fast paced, filled with cool sci-fi action scenes and gadgetry, and not overly long in length.The problem with this book is that I really never cared one bit about any of the characters in this book, or in book one for that matter. As a result, all the world building, science, and cool
A Modish Synopsis, A Modest Assemblage, A Little LookseeIt's a whole long story, and it's open to interpretation. Each chapter begins with a pronoun, or two. And then it's off like a robber's dog. I decided you and I might hit the matrix for a little looksee. You followed, forgetting your fears, forgetting the nausea and constant vertigo. You were there, and you understood this was our space, our construct. It came on, a flickering, non-linear flood of fact and sensory data, a kind of narrative


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