by William Gibson · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788445077023
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Seven years after the events of 'Neuromancer', Count Zero, an information systems pirate, encounters a rare piece of software and connects to the matrix, almost losing his mind in the process. The Cyberspace Matrix, a synergistic base of computation spanning the entire planet, has transformed into a sensitive network, although humanity has not noticed. Meanwhile, a young woman with an altered nervous system to access the Matrix also does not understand what is happening. In France, a gallery manager searches for the mysterious creator of unique and powerful art objects. This science fiction novel explores themes of technology, culture, and human nature in an interconnected world.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
