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true cyberpunk
Technically the second book in a trology, but written in a way that it really takes place in the same universe. You don't have to have read Neuromancer to follow CZs story here. It's excellent, and gets down to the raw elements of 80s Cyberpunk, rampant technology, getting away from the creators and users even as they harness it for every purpose imagineable.
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Fast & Charged
Gibson keeps this one snapping along just like he did with Neuromancer, bouncing seamlessly between characters and scenes, weaving them together in the end. Behind everything, it's a heist story, and a good one at that.
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Anonymous
Posted September 13, 2007
Industrial Samurai
This novel moves quickly at a kinetic pace,good charater developement with tight concise prose. A early winner from Gibson.
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Anonymous
Posted April 19, 2004
Worthy follow-up to Neuromancer
I first read Count Zero 15+ years ago when it first came out, and at the time I thought it might have been the best sci-fi novel ever written. After recently catching up on Gibson's latest work, I decided to go back and re-read the Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive). Count Zero isn't quite as good as I remembered, but it is still a great novel, and the elapsed time has shown not only how much Gibson has influenced the genre, but pop culture and society in general. The Matrix movies, for example, were stolen from, er...influenced by the Sprawl novels, with their hipper-than-thou cyber-cool attitude mirroring the world evoked by Gibson's poetic prose. Three intertwining tales merge at the end of Count Zero to form a larger picture about the thin line between artificial intelligence and life itself. This is well-written science fiction, one of Gibson's best.
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Anonymous
Posted November 5, 2002
AWESOME!
This is great, not only because it's the sequel to Neuromancer, but IT'S STILL REALLY REALLY GOOD! I know, I know, I'm rambling. Gibson is a great novelist, and SOME OTHER PEOPLE NEED TO WRITE REVIEWS!!!!!
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