Count Zero

Count Zero
William Gibson
New York: Arbor House, 1986
Southern Civilization Collection
Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Count Zero is a cyberpunk novel set in the same high-tech, corporate-dominated future as Gibson’s Neuromancer but shifts toward a more mystical, fragmented vision of cyberspace. It expands the author’s Sprawl universe into a richer digital terrain while deepening the exploration of AI and global power structures. The novel upends the technological landscape with the advent of biochips, a hybrid of biology and computing that hints at the next stage of AI evolution.