Count Zero (1986) (edit title/settings)

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• Bobby Newmark: Bobby, aka Count Zero, is a cowboy who works for Two-a-Day as a software tester
• Conroy: he hired Turner to work for him
• Angela Mitchell: daughter of Christian Mitchell, a Maas-Biolabs scientist
• Turner: a security expert hired by Conroy for a supervision job
• Marly Krushkhova: she was hired by herr Virek to find a certain artist
• Joseph Virek: a multibillionaire who hires Marly to find an artist who created a certain peace of art
• Sutcliffe: Sutcliffe works for Turner
• Ramirez: Ramirez works for Turner
• Webber: a woman working for Turner
• Paco: a young man working for Virek
• Beauvoir: a businessman dealing with ice

Quotes edit see section history

• “As I luxuriate in the discovery that I am no special sponge for sorrow, but merely another fallible animal in this stone maze of a city, I come simultaneously to see that I am the focus of some vast device fueled by an obscure desire.”

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• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

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• —My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.

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• As I luxuriate in the discovery that I am no special sponge for sorrow, but merely another fallible animal in this stone maze of a city, I come simultaneously to see that I am the focus of some vast device fueled by an obscure desire.

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• It was sometimes best, when you came to the mystery that was art, to come as a child. The child saw things that were too evident, too obvious for the trained eye.

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• I speak as one who can no longer tolerate that simple state, the cells of my body having opted for the quixotic pursuit of individual careers.

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• Aspects of my wealth have become autonomous, by degrees; at times they even war with one another. Rebellion in the fiscal extremities.

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• There’s a whole other story, about that, a girl with mirrors over her eyes and a man who was scared to care about anything. Something the man did helped the whole thing know itself. . . . And after that, it sort of split off into different parts of itself, and I think the parts are the others, the bright ones. But it’s hard to tell, because they don’t tell it with words, exactly. . . .”

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• The Virek Collection, you see, is a sort of black hole. The unnatural density of my wealth drags irresistibly at the rarest works of the human spirit.

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• IT WAS SUCH an easy thing, death. He saw that now: It just happened. You screwed up by a fraction and there it was, something chill and odorless, ballooning out from the four stupid corners of the room,

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• But the stick-on holograms had actually had some effect on Bobby, because religion was now something he felt he’d considered and put aside. Basically, the way he figured it, there were just some people around who needed that shit, and he guessed there always had been, but he wasn’t one of them, so he didn’t.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• The Sprawl
• Paris
• New York
• Arizona
• Mexico City
• Brussels
• Stockholm
• Chiba
• Marrakech
• Tucson
• Los Angeles
• Japan
• New Delhi
• Sonora

Organizations edit see section history

• Maas-Neotek: a company producing biochips

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Neuromancer, and followed by Mona Lisa Overdrive.

Preceded by The Fountains of Neptune (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)), and followed by Tropic of Cancer.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. William Gibson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Nebula (Finalist, 1986: Best Novel)
• BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) (Finalist, 1986)
• Locus Science Fiction Award (Finalist, 1987)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( G ) › Gibson, William
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( G ) › Gibson, William
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › High Tech

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