Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

Posted on 18 September 2017 by William Gibson

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a missiondangerous than the one he s recovering from to get a defecting chief of RD and the biochip he s perfected out intact But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties some of whom aren t remotely human Free Download [ Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) ] author [ William Gibson ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.But like many of his books, this sequel is only that in regard to...it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them evendangerousWilliam Gibson, Count Zero I haven t read Sprawl 3 Mona Lisa Overdrive , but after reading Neuromancer and now Count Zero , I think I will start referring to the Sprawl trilogy as the Sprawl Dialectic Neuromancer Thesis Count Zero Antithesis, so I guess I have to wait to see if Mona Lisa Overdrive Syit involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and t...Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma which reading list to follow it up with Variety is the spice of life, so I ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously This book falls into my FINISHING THE SERIES list.I loves me a good series But I m terrible for starting a new series before finishing my last so this reading list is all about trying to close out those series I ve got on the goA quick look at the numbersWh...I would perhaps complain that the ending was a bit to deus ex machina for my taste, but then the entire book is wound around the theme of god being in the machine From the vodou loa who seemingly possess various characters and steer the entire plot to the mad European trillionare who has reached near immortality through preservation vats and virtual reality to the insane former net cowboy who now believes he has found god in the random yet deeply moving works of art created by long abandoned I would perhaps complain that the ending was a bit to deus ex machina for my taste, but then the entire book is wound around the theme of god being in the machine From the vodou loa who seemingly possess various characters and steer the entire plot to the mad European trillionare who has reached near immortality through preservation vats and virtual reality to the insane former net cowboy who now believes he has found god in the random yet deeply moving works of art created by long abandoned industrial robot everything in Count Zero is about god, machines, and that perhaps the line between the two is not so clear.Then again, Neuromancer was largely about sentient AI, a...This is a sequel to Neuromancer I use the term loosely.There s really 3 stories here that all tie together at the end.Marly, an art specialist, her world wracked by scandal, is a approached by an incredibly rich man and offered obscene amounts of money to track the origins of some art pieces he s interested in But what has she really gotten herself into Turner is a badass mercenary who does his job ruthlessly and efficiently Now he s been hired by a man named Mitchell But when it all goes This is a sequel to Neuromancer I use the term loosely.There s really 3 stories here that all tie together at the end.Marly, an art specialist, her world wracked by scandal, is a approached by an incredibly rich man and offered obscene amounts of money to track the origins of some art pieces he s interested in But what has she really gotten herself into Turner is a badass mercenary who does his job ruthlessly and efficiently Now he s been hired by a man named Mitchell But when it all goes south, Turner finds himself as the protector of Mitchell s daughter And there s something wrong with herYoung Bobby Newmark desperately wants to be known as Count Zero, a cowboy hacker But on his very first run he encounters some bad ice that nearly kills him But he s saved by a skinny girl that he glimpses in the matri...ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature They plot with men, my other selves, and men imagine they are gods Several years have passed since Molly and Case freed the AI who calls himself Neuromancer Neuromancer s been busy and now his plots have widened to involve several people whom we meet in Count Zero Turner is a recently reconstructed mercenary who s been hired by the Hosaka Corporation to extract Christopher Mitchell and his daughter Angie from Mitchell s job at Maas Biolabs Mitchell is ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature They plot with men, my other selves, and men imagine they are gods Several years have passed since Molly and Case freed the AI who calls himself Neuromancer Neuromancer s been busy and now his plots have widened to involve several people whom we meet in Count Zero Turner is a recently reconstructed mercenary who s been...When I was maybe halfway through this book, I wrote this elsewhere It s funny reading classic William Gibson now because he basically imagined a version of the internet that was much less life changing than the actual internet There will be instant electronic full VR communication but there will be no communities or subcultures in it, people will still just be friends in real life and then talk on the video phone sometimes Using the internet is sort of like playing a vi When I was maybe halfway through this book, I wrote this elsewhere It s funny reading classic William Gibson now because he basically imagined a version of the internet that was much less life changing than the actual internet There will be instant electronic full VR communication but there will be no communities or subcultures in it, people will still just be friends in real life and then talk on the video phone sometimes Using the internet is sort of like playing a video game on psychedelic drugs, and it it is mainly used as a substitute for drugs, or for Crimes Being good at this weird game has replaced actual technical skill so the technical people involved in the Crimes are not nerds, they are edgy adrenalin...A Modish Synopsis, A Modest Assemblage, A Little Looksee It s a whole long story, and it s open to interpretation Each chapter begins with a pronoun, or two And then it s off like a robber s dog I decided you and I might hit the matrix for a little looksee You followed, forgetting your fears, forgetting the nausea and constant vertigo You were there, and you understood this was our space, our construct It came on, a flickering, non linear flood of fact and sensory data, a kind of narrative A Modish Synopsis, A Modest Assemblage, A Little Looksee It s a whole long story, and it s open to interpretation Each chapter begins with a pronoun, or two And then it s off like a robber s dog I decided you and I might hit the matrix for a little looksee You followed, forgetting your fears, forgetting the nausea and constant vertigo You were there, and you understood this was our space, our constru...An interesting addition to the Sprawl trilogy started with Neuromancer, taking a look at similar themes from a different perspective What makes us human What effect is technology having on us as a species What happens if technology develops beyond our understanding and of its own free will I wasn t blown away, in fact I found it quite difficult to read at times yet managed to read it what felt like no time at all This sort of sums up the contradiction of my experience of this book Bored yet An interesting addition to the Sprawl trilogy started with Neuromancer, taking a look at similar themes from a different perspective What makes us ...The second instalment in Gibson s sprawl series contains all the elements that made cyberpunk so much fun The plot is a breakneck thrill ride complete with augmented humans, mercenaries, Rastafarian warriors and a tactical nuke...

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18 September 2017

William Gibson