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Zusatztext “Potent and heady.”— Philadelphia Daily News “An intriguing cast of characters and a tough! glitzy image of computer consciousness and the future of mankind.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch “ Count Zero shares with Neuromancer that novel’s stunning use of language! breakneck pacing! technological innovation! and gritty brand-name realism.”— Fantasy Review “William Gibson’s prose! astonishing in its clarity and skill! becomes high-tech electric poetry.”—Bruce Sterling “Suspense! action...a lively story...a sophisticated version of the sentient computer! a long way from the old models that were simply out to Rule the World.”— Locus Informationen zum Autor William Gibson ’s first novel, Neuromancer , won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero , Burning Chrome , Mona Lisa Overdrive , Virtual Light , Idoru , All Tomorrow’s Parties , Pattern Recognition , Spook Country , Zero History , Distrust That Particular Flavor , The Peripheral , and Agency . He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. Klappentext A stylish, street smart, frighteningly probable parable of the future from the visionary, New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-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... Zusammenfassung William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—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.......
