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Count Zero

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Kyle Soller, Alix Wilton Regan, Sebastián Sebastián Capitán Viveros
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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 Humorous Science Fiction Software
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The performances, the terrible European accents, the changes in narrator and changes in microphones (re-recording?) or change in sound qualty with the same narrator do nothing but make this difficult to listen too.

could be so much better.

Performances that pull you out of the story

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I love the Sprawl trilogy, and I was looking forward to this version. The characterization by the actors is really good but there are numerous seriously bad recording and overdubbing errors throughout the recordings that randomly ruin immersion. A pity!

Second amazing Sprawl novel marred by some sloppy audio engineering

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The sound is super muffled in some places it’s pretty jarring takes you out of the story … really disappointed.

The sound is all over the place - interesting story tho

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Did anyone from the publisher listen to this before allowing it to be sold? The narrator of Bobby's chapters is really poor, and (probably to fix some errors) the producer has patched some lines in the middle of his narration with totally different volume, tone etc rather than have him re-read the full chapters - it's ridiculous

Some of the narration is a complete mess

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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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