book-information

Count Zero (7)

Author

William Gibson

Genre

Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Techno-Thriller, Dystopian Fiction

Synopsis

In the sprawling digital underworld of the near future, a young hacker named Bobby Newmark stumbles into a deadly corporate war while mysterious voodoo gods emerge in cyberspace. As vast zaibatsu conglomerates battle for control of biotechnology and artificial intelligence, three separate lives collide in a high-stakes struggle that blurs the line between human consciousness and machine. Gibson's second installment in the Sprawl trilogy weaves together corporate espionage, street-level hustlers, and transcendent AI entities in a dense cyberpunk thriller.