Count Zero
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4.4 • 426 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future.
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....
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
Adulterated illusion
I liked how the book took the presence of the reader from each spectrum of rift possibility in a scene; almost a haven of what if and what does this proceed from? I come to think of the described array in simulated interest for theory in established pace for dynamic computation grading. Sort of like the passage can entice me (the reader) and incite adulterated moments. I didn't like how my own perceived outline was taken by storm of voice in the fact of one position being clear that lives were in danger, however where would I have been without the thrill to become a savior. I kindly say the writer has suspense and the expertise loathed in such exceptional adjustments that programming could be his second trait withal further projects in stories. As a deepened subject for skill and dictated apparition in each chapter for a piece that holds configured pragmatism and interesting apartheid, I'm envisioned from such rounded transitions. Like the characterizations, the parts that were almost my scripted passivity and how one scene led to the other, aligning correct episode if it were one. I seemed to be sedentary and to the influx ultimatum that I was included for result of who could become, when I definitely know I choose naysayers tooling most portrait scenario connectivity. Not to be secretive of who could win at the next title, are you denouncing someone that quite honestly could be a safe protege in the theatrical making of a hero? You'd like this book and how conflicted roams are led into different logics terming vote for the given context. Thanks by shire repulsion as the trellis is nominal for the advantage... Hehe
Long time Gibson fan
Neuromancer is the first book I purchased on my iPad. Seems only fair. It is unfortunate that Apple does not compete with Ono-Sendai in decks. Be prepared for superb descriptions of context and speculative fiction that has aged very gracefully over the years. In my opinion he is one of the greatest living fiction writers, but what does an old geek know! He also has an uncanny sense of the grit of technology, how it enrapts and enslaves simultaneously, weaving desirable dystopias.
Gibson provides so much texture in his books and in his blogs and tweets. A blog he wrote hooked me on FieldNotes - best pencils in the world, though I will use them less with my iPad.
This has become somewhat of a tradition for me, since when I purchased my nook I bought Neuromancer.
Faster Than The First
Still compelling, but paced more erratically than the first.