You Should Be Reading: Book 5, Chapter 2 - Count Zero

Chapter 2, where I ramble about hackers and Loa and voodoo and AI's and art and corporations and spirits and freelancers and The Sprawl!

[@philipparakete616]

Loved your summary and needed it because i couldn't find my paperback

[@colefordmusic]

Big fan of this one. Takes the concepts of neuromancer but twists them into a techno thriller...Mona Lisa Overdrive is probably better but less fun

[@PravisWheelhouse]

Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it myself!

[@chase36chase]

hello, its now long ago since your video: great video. i love the trilogy, but love the first book the most (it was such a ride) i wanted to recommend "all tommorows party" (if you havent read it). its better to read befor that virtual light and idoru (both i dont like tthat much), but the last book of the bridge trilogy is imo very very very nice.

[@JJJ111JJJ]

One thing that has always perplexed me as a Swede is how Gibson could know of our "hideous industrial suburbs" way back in the 80s, pre internet. These are essentially our version of "the projects", except here they're called the million programme. Today they're mostly home to low income families and various gangs.

[@PravisWheelhouse]

That I do not know. Maybe he visited at some point? Or he just had a moment of prophesy, sometimes that happens, where a work of fiction will unknowingly predict a 'future event'.

[@drewcifer704]

This book sucked

[@PravisWheelhouse]

Fair enough.