Count Zero
- 312
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
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Our view
“Count Zero” widens the world of “Neuromancer” instead of repeating it, with a new cast and three converging plot lines. A mercenary, a novice hacker and a disgraced art curator each see a different corner of Gibson’s corporate future, and the pleasure is in watching the pieces come together. It is dark, tense cyberpunk, and better read after “Neuromancer” than on its own.
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About the book
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It presents a near future whose technologies include a network of supercomputers that created a "matrix" in "cyberspace", an accessible, virtual, three-dimensionally active "inner space", which, for Gibson, was seen as being dominated by violent competition between small numbers of very rich individuals and multinational corporations. The novel is composed of a trio of plot lines that ultimately converge.
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7.87.8 / 10 - NeuromancerStart here
7.97.9 / 10 - Count ZeroThis book
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7.87.8 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 513 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 56 | 11% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 9 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 448 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is Count Zero?
It has 312 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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