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Count Zero parent’s guide: what’s inside
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Count Zero is a sophisticated cyberpunk novel featuring corporate espionage, hacking, and existential threat that demands mature reading comprehension and emotional resilience. The book contains moderate profanity, occasional sexual references, and repeated depictions of violence and psychological danger in a morally murky world. While it offers thought-provoking ideas about technology, consciousness, and power, it is fundamentally a dark thriller aimed at adult audiences and inappropriate for younger teens.
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Turner, 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: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfec... Turner, 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: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. The second novel of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero is a stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to Neuromancer.
Shelved under
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- American literature
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Sprawl Trilogy
- Virtual reality
- Fiction
- Cyberspace
- Matrix (Imaginary place)
- genre:cyberpunk
- Diverse Characters
- Unloveable Characters
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ISBN 9780441013678 · Ace Books