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1986 Paperback Grade: C Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 246 pages. Turner, high-corporate commando, is abruptly reactivated by the Hosaka Corporation for a mission ... even more dangerous than the one he's stil... Read more Show Less

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Overview

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…

“Potent and heady.” —Philadelphia Daily News

“An intriguing cast of characters and a tough,
glitzy image of computer consciousness and the future of mankind.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Count Zero shares with Neuromancer that novel’s stunning use of language, breakneck pacing, technological innovation, and gritty brand-name realism.” —Fantasy Review

“William Gibson’s prose, astonishing in its clarity and skill, becomes high-tech electric poetry.” —Bruce Sterling

“Suspense, action…a lively story…a sophisticated version of the sentient computer, a long way from the old models that were simply out to Rule the World.” —Locus

Enter the world of a terrifying high-tech future gone awry, a world where computer chips are implanted directly into the brain of a child, where artists hide underground like hunted prey, and where a new force has invaded Earth's Computer Matrix--a force that's playing for keeps . . . Count Zero Interrupt. Count Zero is the sequel to the award-winning novel, Neuromancer.

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Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, was greeted with hosannas and showered with awards. This second book, set in the same universe, again offers a faddish, glitzy surface not unlike that of Miami Vice. Gibson's central image is the shadow boxes constructed by the artist Joseph Cornell, collections of seemingly unrelated objects whose juxtaposition creates a new impression. In the same fashion, the novel has three protagonists, each of whom is putting together jigsaw clues in pursuit of his separate goal. The corporate headhunter, the art dealer and the computer hacker all find themselves being manipulatedjust as the author contrives to have their paths converge. This book is less appealing and less verbally skillful than Gibson's first novel, dense and dour as that was, but readers who liked that one will want to see this as well. (March 26)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780441117734
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/28/1987
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 129,697
  • Series: Sprawl Trilogy Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 10.88 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

William Gibson
William Gibson
William Gibson's feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal "cyberpunk" novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers.

Biography

Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology.

Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. When he was 15, he was sent away to private school in Arizona, but he left without graduating when his mother died suddenly. He fled to Canada to avoid the draft and immersed himself in '60s counterculture. He married, moved to British Columbia, and enrolled in college, graduating in 1977 with a degree in English. Around this time he began to write in earnest, combining his lifelong love of science fiction and his newfound passion for the punk music evolving in New York and London.

In the early 1980s, Gibson met writer and punk musician John Shirley and sci-fi authors Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling. All three were blown away by the power and originality of Gibson's stories, and together the four men went on to forge a radical new literary movement called cyberpunk. In 1984, Gibson's groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, was published. Daring and revolutionary, it envisioned such techno-marvels as AI, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational capitalism years before they became realities. Although it was not an immediate sensation, Neuromancer struck a chord with hardcore sci-fi fans who turned it into a word-of-mouth hit. Then it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards (the Triple Crown of Science Fiction), catapulting Gibson into superstardom overnight.

Even if he had never written another word, Gibson's impact would be clearly seen in the works of such cutting-edge contemporary authors as Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Paul DiFilippo. But, as it is, Neuromancer was just the beginning -- the first book in an inspired trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre; and since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a steampunk classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and such imaginative post-9/11 cyber thrillers as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country .

    1. Also Known As:
      William Ford Gibson (full name)
    2. Hometown:
      Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 17, 1948
    2. Place of Birth:
      Conway, South Carolina
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of British Columbia, 1977
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  • Posted January 12, 2012

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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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