Count Zero

The second installment in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero shifts the focus from the neon-lit streets of Chiba City to the corporate heart of the sprawl. The narrative follows two parallel trajectories: Turner, a corporate mercenary reactivated for a high-stakes extraction mission involving a defecting R&D chief and a critical biochip, and Bobby Newmark, a small-time data hustler in the American rust belt who is inadvertently swept into a war in cyberspace. As the plot unfolds, the boundaries between physical reality and the digital matrix blur, revealing a world where corporate power and emerging artificial intelligences operate with terrifying autonomy.

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