Count Zero - William Gibson

Count Zero is a great story and a great follow up to Neuromancer it follows the progress of a series of seemingly unrelated protagonists, Turner a man of action who is basically a very aggressive recruitment consultant, Bobby Numark (read No mark) who gets himself onvolved with a very weird crowd, a girl searching for the producer of art so simple it is worth a fortune. This book builds to a massive tempo as the forces meet and the dark mystery parts to reveal a darker enigma beneath. This book is a classic and Gibson gives each charecter a flaw that makes the unrecognisable all of a sudden familiar. If you have read Neuromancer read this for a follow ...  Read the complete review

Count Zero is set in the same world as William Gibson's 1984 sci-fi classic Neuromancer, several years on. Bobby Numark (Count Zero) himself is a teenage wannabe hacker, using the 'consensual hallucination' of the Matrix. In Gibson's world, the Net is rendered as a three-dimensional virtual reality, a universe of light and shadow representing the flow of information on which mankind depends. The other main plot of the novel involves the effects of corporate espionage. Has been hired to extract Mitchell, a researcher with Maas Biotech, but instead ends up with his daughter, Angela. As Bobby and Angela are hunted by a dying billionaire, they learn ...  Read the complete review