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[[Image:Gibson_sprawl.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[Sprawl trilogy]], of which ''Count Zero'' is the second part]] |
[[Image:Gibson_sprawl.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[Sprawl trilogy]], of which ''Count Zero'' is the second part]] |
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'''''Count Zero''''' (ISBN 0441117732) is a [[science fiction]] novel written by [[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]], originally published in 1986. A prime example of the [[cyberpunk]] sub-genre, it is set in the same milieux as Gibson's prior novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'', and forms the middle volume of [[The Sprawl trilogy]], which includes '' |
'''''Count Zero''''' (ISBN 0441117732) is a [[science fiction]] novel written by [[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]], originally published in 1986. A prime example of the [[cyberpunk]] sub-genre, it is set in the same milieux as Gibson's prior novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'', and forms the middle volume of [[The Sprawl trilogy]], which includes ''Neuromancer'', ''Count Zero'', and ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]''. |
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Eight years after the events of ''Neuromancer'', strange things begin to happen in The Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be [[voodoo]] gods. |
Eight years after the events of ''Neuromancer'', strange things begin to happen in The Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be [[voodoo]] gods. |
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Revision as of 17:58, 2 November 2005
Count Zero (ISBN 0441117732) is a science fiction novel written by William Gibson, originally published in 1986. A prime example of the cyberpunk sub-genre, it is set in the same milieux as Gibson's prior novel Neuromancer, and forms the middle volume of The Sprawl trilogy, which includes Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Eight years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in The Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be voodoo gods.
Two incredibly powerful multinational (and extending to outerspace) corporations are engaged in a battle for control over a powerful new technology (a biochip) using hackers and the Matrix as well as espionage and gun-play.
- Quotation: "He'd used decks in school, toys that shuttled you through the infinite reaches of the space that wasn't space, mankind's unthinkably complex consensual hallucination, the matrix cyerspace, where the great corporate hotcores burned like neon novas, data so dense you suffered sensory overload if you tried to apprehend more than the merest outline." (Excerp from Willim Gibson's Count Zero)
The title of the book, other than being the pseudonym of the main character Bobby Newmark, is also a word-play on the programming term count zero. In a loop, a counter typically reaches a zero value therefore exiting the loop.
There are three main characters/storylines: Turner, set out to 'shift' Mitchell to the Hosaka Corporation; Marly, engaged by Virek to find the creator of the Joseph Cornell boxes, and Bobby (Count Zero) who flatlines while hacking a corporate computer. The three come together in the end, of course.
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