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Author | William Gibson |
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Language | English |
Series | Sprawl trilogy |
Genre | Science fiction, cyberpunk |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd[not verified in body] |
Publication date | 1986 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 0-575-03696-6 (first edition) |
Preceded by | Neuromancer |
Followed by | Mona Lisa Overdrive |
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986.[1] 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—writing these decades earlier—was seen as being dominated by violent competition between small numbers of very rich individuals and multinational corporations.[2] The novel is composed of a trio of plot lines that ultimately converge.[2]
Count Zero is the second volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which began with Neuromancer and concludes with Mona Lisa Overdrive.[1] It was serialized in the January through March 1986 monthly issues of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine;[3] the January cover was devoted to the story, with art by Hisaki Yasuda.[citation needed] According to Gibson, the magazine version was edited with his permission to allow access to youth audiences in the United States.[3]
While Gibson did not not introduce the concept or coin the term "cyberpunk", a subgenre of science fiction (nor to particularly associate himself with it), he is considered to have first envisioned and described the concept of "cyberspace".[4][5] The novel, Count Zero, is nonetheless regarded as an early example of the cyberpunk subgenre.[citation needed]
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