Count Zero

Count Zero

By William Gibson

Part of the Sprawl Trilogy
Reviewed by Matt Crampton
Buy from Amazon

Seven 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 (hinted to be the fractured remains of the joined AIs that were Neuromancer and Wintermute).

Two powerful multinational corporations, Maas Biolabs and Hosaka, are engaged in a battle for control over a powerful new technology (a biochip), using hackers and the Matrix as well as espionage and violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero
Published in 1986
  • A Quantum Murder
    A Quantum Murder Dr Edward Kitchener is a brilliant researcher into quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate
  • Absolution Gap
    Absolution Gap War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding.
  • All Tomorrows Parties
    All Tomorrows Parties Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo.
  • Century Rain
    Century Rain Wendell Floyd is an expatriate American living in an alternate version of 1950s Paris
  • Chasm City
    Chasm City Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from an enclave in space called a Shroud
  • Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
    Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days While visiting the Monument to the Eighty in Chasm City, Richard meets his old friend Roland Childe