Count Zero

by William Gibson

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789634198956
Publisher:	Agave Könyvek Kiadó Kft.
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Series:	Sprawl-trilógia , #2
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, The Peripheral, and Agency. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

Hometown:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date of Birth:

March 17, 1948

Place of Birth:

Conway, South Carolina

Education:

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1977

Editorial Reviews

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)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

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

From the Publisher

Gibson’s classic cyber-thriller is given full-body flesh thanks to Jonathan Davis’s careful, dynamic reading. The novel follows a mercenary whose damaged body has been recently reconstructed who is on a mission to liberate a scientist from the corporate island from which he wishes to defect. Meanwhile, a young hacker, who is nearly killed when he tries to access a rogue biochip, finds himself in the middle of a war spanning reality and cyberspace that involves voodoo, rival tech corporations, an art collector who wants to live forever, and a mystery guardian angel. The story is complex and multilayered, but Davis’s clean narration eases the listener through this pioneer work of cyberpunk. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2011 - AudioFile