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‘A masterly peek into the computer-obsessed electronic global ghetto, narrated in a futuristic sland-enriched vocabulary’
Time Out
‘Gibson is the foremost of a group of young American writers who are recording today’s hip, streetwise, computer-literate youth in science fiction terms’
Fiction Magazine
‘Gibson is the Raymond Chandler of SF’
Observer
‘Gibson is up your alley. He is a technological fantasist with unparalleled sensitivity… wired direct to the mains’
New Musical Express
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In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.
Turner woke up in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him. They let him recuperate for a while in Mexico, then Hosaka reactivated his memory for a mission more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him.
The head designer from Maas-Biolabs is defecting to Hosaka, or so he says. Turner has to deliver him safely, and the biochips he invented – which are of supreme interest to other parties, some of whom are not human.
Count Zero is human. Indeed, he’s just a kid from Barrytown, and totally unprepared for the heavy duty data coming his way when he’s caught up in the cyberspace war triggered by the defection. With voodoo on the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the superrich have their virtual hands full already.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First realise that this is the 2nd book of a trilogy that is "Neuromancer", "Count Zero" and "Mona Lisa Overdrive". I don't advice reading this until you've read Neuromancer and have got into the whole cyberpunk vocabulary.
The plots in the storyline are deliciously challenging to unravel and Gibson certainly doesn't spoon-feed you all the threads that intertwine everything. I think putting everything together took me 24 hours after finishing the book.
The secret (and illegal by Turing police rules) unification of two AI's called Wintermute and Neuromancer has left unexplained entities in the matrix - "Yeah, there's things out there, Ghosts, voices. Why not? Oceans had mermaids, and we have a sea of silicon, see?" These matrix "voodoo gods" are referred to as the "loa" by Wig, Beauvoir, Lucas and their associates (who basically worship them). The problem is that the "loa" have found a way to inhabit the real world by designing biochips and having them grafted into people's brains. This technology provokes the interest of one of the richest men in the world who is seeking to free his mind from his cancer-ridden body. The resulting power struggle pulls the strings of all the pawns that are characters in the book. Read it, you might see what I mean?
The plots in the storyline are deliciously challenging to unravel and Gibson certainly doesn't spoon-feed you all the threads that intertwine everything. I think putting everything together took me 24 hours after finishing the book.
The secret (and illegal by Turing police rules) unification of two AI's called Wintermute and Neuromancer has left unexplained entities in the matrix - "Yeah, there's things out there, Ghosts, voices. Why not? Oceans had mermaids, and we have a sea of silicon, see?" These matrix "voodoo gods" are referred to as the "loa" by Wig, Beauvoir, Lucas and their associates (who basically worship them). The problem is that the "loa" have found a way to inhabit the real world by designing biochips and having them grafted into people's brains. This technology provokes the interest of one of the richest men in the world who is seeking to free his mind from his cancer-ridden body. The resulting power struggle pulls the strings of all the pawns that are characters in the book. Read it, you might see what I mean?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read this masterpiece (together with the other two of the Sprawl series: NEUROMANCER and MONA LISA OVERDRIVE) during my university years, about a decade ago. Since then I have re-read it countless times.
Of the three this is my favorite: good and evil voodoo legbas as AI cyberspace avatars; life in the Sprawl comes into focus, sharply. The eye-watering smog and the ozone smell of new electronics surround a storyline that moves on deserted highways with the assurance of an armored hovercraft..
Even reading only some pages brings up powerful imagery, unforgettable prose...
Start with Neuromancer. Then this one. And then Mona Lisa Overdrive.
A Masterpiece Trilogy!!! Own them all!!!
Of the three this is my favorite: good and evil voodoo legbas as AI cyberspace avatars; life in the Sprawl comes into focus, sharply. The eye-watering smog and the ozone smell of new electronics surround a storyline that moves on deserted highways with the assurance of an armored hovercraft..
Even reading only some pages brings up powerful imagery, unforgettable prose...
Start with Neuromancer. Then this one. And then Mona Lisa Overdrive.
A Masterpiece Trilogy!!! Own them all!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An amazingly prescient piece of writing. Here's a story from the stone age of microcomputing (think Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore, Atari), yet it anticipates many of the trends we see today. And it's not just a techie book; it's structured with real assurance, and the language occasionally verges on the sublime (particularly when Gibson's describing light or colour). This is a book which belongs in the sci-fi canon. I don't give five stars, on principle, but if I did...
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Convoluted and Hard to Understand
According to one reviewer and the wikipedia article, this is part 2 of a trilogy (which might make it hard to follow). Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jamie
A Misfire
After his excellent early short stories (one of them, New Rose Hotel, seems like the prototype for one of the plot strands in this book) and the brilliant Neuromancer, Gibson... Read more
Published 19 months ago by DRFP
Not as good as the first one
Quite simply it is too complex and two of the story arcs in the book go absolutely nowhere leading me to think why on earth were they in there in the first place? Read more
Published 24 months ago by Paul M
Tightly interweaving strands
I read this a long time after Neuromancer, so some of the echoes from that first part of the trilogy were somewhat faint, but I found it very easy to get back into Gibson's... Read more
Published on 22 May 2006 by Jeremy Walton
excellent - should be in every sci-fi collection.
Although I am quite familiar with the cyberpunk world, this was my first gibson book and i loved it.
Its kindof a mass of ideas and futuristic cool, entangled over a story. Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2000 by i.n.n.reid@another.com
Good, but not wonderful
This is a good cyberpunk book. It's not as involved as something like Cryptonomicon (some people might like that!) but a good read. Read more
Published on 20 April 2000
Even better than Neuromancer (heresy?)
I loved Neuromancer, but found some of it too much of an information overload, and some of it a little too baroque and "out there". Read more
Published on 16 Oct 1999
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