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Summary: Gibson matures and expands
Review: With Neuromancer, Gibson exploded onto the science fiction stage with his imagined future of Japanese hegemony, cyperspace cowboys and sentient computers. With Count Zero, he takes that world, revisits and expands on it. He seems to have grown more confident as a stylist with this book. The prose is so baroque, each page so dense with ideas and textures, that it takes one's breath away. Gibson himself admits in interviews that fear of boring his reader makes him boil down his prose to bare essentials. We get where things are made, textures of materials not invented yet, cityscapes filled with superskyscrapers and Fuller domes, etc. And as always, his rock and roll Burroughs/Elmore Leonard prose is right there with us. Hyper-detailing, capturing the slang of the underworld cyber-criminals. More ambitious in this outing, he takes on more characters and Dos Passos-like, spirals them all into a coalescent finale with a very assured hand. A tight, incredibly imaginative and detailed book - that will go by like the wind.
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