Count Zero
Nebula Award nominee 1986, Hugo Award nominee 1987.
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.
William Gibson
William Gibson (born 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the ”noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term ”cyberspace” in his short story ”Burning Chrome” and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
Sprawl
Sprawl consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
