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Count Zero

Sprawl Trilogy, Book 2

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Count Zero

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Kyle Soller, Sebastián Capitán Viveros, Alix Wilton Regan
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They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair.

When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable.

When Turner wakes up in Mexico—in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him—his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while, then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him: the head designer from Maas Biolabs says he wants to defect to Hosaka, and it's Turner's job to deliver him safely.

Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive....

©1986 William Gibson (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd. Adventure Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Software

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Book itself is an all-timer but narrator for the Bobby Newmark sections is all over the place; plenty of energy but strange cadence and emphasis, like he doesn't fully understand the sentences he's reading. It's like the audio equivalent of someone's gone through and added random commas and dashes into the text.

Maybe I'll get used to it. The other narrators are perfectly acceptable.

Flawed masterpiece

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3 stories, 3 narrators, some mild audio differences in the edits (not as noticeable as the first book) overall excellent

excellent

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Who did the mixing on this thing? Random changes in volume all the time!
There are three narrators for three characters, all are terrible in their own way. Why does one narrator cover whole chapters for a completely different character?

Great story, awful narrators

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Absolutely fantastic story, narration was brilliant. Highly recommend if your into cyberpunk! Gibson is a genius when it comes to the genre.

brilliant

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I returned this after only a few chapters. You might be able to listen past the manner in which this is produced and enjoy Gibson’s story, but for me, the production is poor, with what sounds like re-recorded or edited sections, and inconsistent volume and recording quality. The narrators seem like they are sometimes trying to perform a dramatisation, rather than narrate an audiobook. Not their fault necessarily, though it’s a shame, after years of only having Neuromancer in audible, to have the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy delivered in such a disappointing production. Buy the book instead.

Great Story, poor production

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