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Loading... Count Zero (original 1986; edition 2006)by William Gibson
Work detailsCount Zero by William Gibson (1986)
 sturlington | May 20, 2013 |  *note to self.copy from Al.  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 | Quite quickly: Every few books, I set out to reread something. I'd been intending to reread Count Zero for several years, convinced as I was that it may be my favorite book of his. I'm pretty sure that's the case. It has elements from many of his future works: corporate espionage, the overly sensitive individual given an unlimited expense account from a wealthy admirer, the search for an elusive art object, consumer culture, and much more. This book is highly recommended. And, while re-reading it, I stumbled on a description that turned out to work well as an assignment for experimental musicians. William Gibson himself retweeted the project four times while it progressed, and you can check it out at http://disquiet.com/2012/07/19/disquiet0029-countzero/. Disquiet | Mar 30, 2013 | I liked Count Zero even more than Neuromancer. The complexity of the plot is very satisfying. The only thing that some might find a hinderance, is that (I am convinced) the book must be read quickly, with the same ferocity as the author wrote/designed it to be, as if mentally gasping for air between sentences, which I like about Gibson's cyberpunk books - Very Invigorating! (  ) Vvolodymyr | Oct 16, 2012 | HanJie | Mar 31, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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The title of the book, other than being the pseudonym of the main character Bobby Newmark, was also claimed by Gibson to be a word-play on the alleged computer programming term count zero interrupt. According to a frontleaf of the book, in a "count zero interrupt", an interrupt of a process decrements a counter to zero. The exact quote is "On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero."
Read in the 1990s. (