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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 | : | First 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 Based On Books Count Zero (Sprawl #2)
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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 coolThis is my second read of Count Zero, the first read shortly after publishing as a paperback.I read it again, and like Neuromancer, what I thought I read back then (1986/87), and what I re-read was two different things. I will be reading Mona Lisa Overdrive next, and hope that my recall of what I read in that book more lines up with my next reread.Three different main stories that end up being threaded into a grand finale. There is the story of Bobby (Count Zero). This reading, I realized that
With each review I write, I become increasingly daunted by a sense of infinite possibility. I have an entire book, this Count Zero, to write about what in the world should I focus on? The question in turn gives rise to an equally haunting sense of relativism. Is this book good? Sure. Is this book bad? Sure. With few exceptions, a good book is not infallibly so nor a bad book insurmountably so. Rather, the goodness or badness is a choice I, the reader, must make.Yet when I make that choice to
Not the blinding, genre-defining supernova of Neuromancer -- that pretty much only happens once per author or once per series -- but a stronger book in pretty much every way that matters, and proof positive (not needed now, certainly, but probably much more welcome back in the heady days of the late 1980s) that Gibson was not a one-hit wonder.Events pick up about seven years after the close of Neuromancer, with an entirely new cast of characters (although there are a few Neuromancer cameos
it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. William Gibson, Count Zero I haven't read Sprawl # 3 (Mona Lisa Overdrive), but after reading Neuromancer and now 'Count Zero', I think I will start referring to the Sprawl trilogy as the Sprawl Dialectic. 'Neuromancer' = Thesis. 'Count Zero' = Antithesis, so I guess I have to wait to see if 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' =
I would perhaps complain that the ending was a bit to deus ex machina for my taste, but then the entire book is wound around the theme of god being in the machine. From the vodou loa who seemingly possess various characters and steer the entire plot; to the mad European trillionare who has reached near immortality through preservation vats and virtual reality; to the insane former net cowboy who now believes he has found god in the random yet deeply moving works of art created by long abandoned
There was a time in my life where cyberpunk was where it was at and this book really fitted the bill.
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