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Summary: Gibson's best story
Review: Of the three "sprawl" books. Very detailed, excellent plotting and charatures. If you are a Steely Dan fan, play spot the song references, there are at least 6. Truly if you are a cyberpunk fan should buy all 3; Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. If you are into well written SF, by them anyway, and trust me, you'll be a cyberpunk fan at the end.
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Summary: GIBSON-style, very absorbing
Review: On the one hand, Gibson has created another great work of
science-fiction. Children with computer-implants in their
brain, jockeys hacking through ice, and many things he
picked up from Neuromancer, so e.g. the not unlikely to come
"microsofts". The characters can plug them in behind their
ear and gain great knowledge.
On the other hand, it is extremely well written. Several
plot-lines, very different (at the beginning even strange)
ideas.
And in the end, it all sums up to the great come-together
of (nearly) all main characters. AND ALSO TO ONE OF THE VERY BEST PIECES OF SCIENCE-FICTION.
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Summary: Must read sequel to Neuromancer
Review: Picking up where Neuromancer left off, I can understand why Count Zero was Gibson's favorite of the Sprawl series. He continues to combine cyberpunk with a sense of biopunk, capturing the reader from page one with a description of doctors rebuilding an agent from a description and body parts bought on the black market.We then watch as three seemingly separate story lines unfold, wait to see how Gibson is going to bring them all together. This book deals with everyone from rising cowboy, to top Hosaka agent, to struggling artist, to super rich vat dweller. I felt that the ending could have maybe been a little better, but did pull all three story lines and almost every major character together for one dynamic finish. I love to watch the interaction of Gibson's characters, as he is always creating dark and different characters that are often hated by the readers. I guess that is what I like about them. They're real characters they one would expect to find in the slums of the Sprawl, or working for Neotech, not just stereotype heroes. Throwing in hot cyberdecks, double-agents, lots of drugs, more awesome biotechnology, combined with Gibson's unique characters, this book is a must read for any fan of Neuromancer, Gibson, or Cyberpunk.
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Summary: This is my second copy of this book.
Review: So, it is not very durable! I mean if a book can not handle being dropped into the tub, left in the sun for a week and not turn brittle and yellow. Is it worth the price?
Well, yes...yes it is. I was only on my third or fourth time through it. So, a few years later I bought it from Amazon to read again. And yes... I do watch movies over and over again...
I would tell you all of the same things everyone else has written, but Gibson books are very worth the read.
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Summary: This is my second copy of this book.
Review: So, it is not very durable! I mean if a book can not handle being dropped into the tub, left in the sun for a week and not turn brittle and yellow. Is it worth the price?
Well, yes...yes it is. I was only on my third or fourth time through it. So, a few years later I bought it from Amazon to read again. And yes... I do watch movies over and over again...
I would tell you all of the same things everyone else has written, but Gibson books are very worth the read.
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Summary: Not a good use of my time
Review: The book leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling. Getting close to the end I was wondering how is he going to tie all this together, and as I expected it was as if it was forced together.
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Summary: A good sciebce-fiction work
Review: The first paragraph of this book sets the narrative tone for the rest of the work, indeed, it is the trademark style of William Gibson and his growing body of science fiction work. Turner is a mercenary in a not-to-distant future earth civilization. In this networked world, multinational mega-corporations, with names like Maas Biolabs and Hosaka wield enormous power especially over the network and the cyberspace world it encompasses. In these corporations, genius scientists have lifetime contracts. They are well-paid prisoners of these giant enterprises. One such scientist, Christopher Mitchell, a man credited with creating the biochip, a replacement for the silicon chip, wants to leave his current employer Mass Biolabs and join rival Hosaka. The latter commissioned a reconstituted Turner with the job of bringing Mitchell safely out. "It took the Dutchman and his team three months to put Turner together again," the author writes. "They cloned a square meter of skin for him, grew it on slabs of collagen and shark-cartilage polysaccharides. They bought eyes and genitals on the open market. The eyes were green." Count Zero is the second in a trilogy Gibson has created based on a networked society. The three books explore the notion of information as a life force unto itself that can be stored, manipulated, and evolved into different life forms. In the telling of his tales, Gibson introduces the reader to a rich assortment of unforgettable characters.
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Summary: The Must Read "Sequel" to Neuromancer
Review: The second book in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO, MONA LISA OVERDRIVE), Gibson deftly brings together three stories, mixing voodoo and high technology into a fast-paced tale. Almost as brilliant as Gibson's NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO is, nonetheless, a thoroughly entertaining read. Less heavy that NEUROMANCER, the book has definite foundations in cyberpunk, but will probably appeal to a much wider audience. Slightly slow in beginning, but accelerating to a heart-pounding finish, COUNT ZERO is a book that should be read by Gibson fans, cyberpunk fans, and anyone who enjoyed NEUROMANCER.
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Summary: First class gibson
Review: This book fits perfectly in Gibsons inavative Sprawl series. Very inventive original and timeless. If you Read only one Gibson, read Neuromancer, but if you plan on reading more, read this.
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Summary: Prophecy?
Review: This book takes a strange and violent look into the future. Some of the tech talk is confusing but you pick up on it really fast. The story itself is equally distributed between 3 characters, you know who the next chapter will focus on. It is a pretty quick read and poses alot of theological questions.
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