Twenty-five years ago, Los Angeles magazine envisioned what the world would look like in the current decade. And unlike Blade Runner, they avoided the cool but standard science fiction allegories – like massive billboards, flying cars and sentient robots – and went straight for the things that seemed entirely possible by contemporary standards. The cover […]
Count Zero
by storiesbywilliams on April 12, 2012 in Reviews, Books and tagged science fiction, Sci-Fi, William Gibson, cyberspace, Bridge Trilogy, Neuromancer, Bigend trilogy, cyberpunk, AI, sprawl trilogy, the sprawl, microsoft, tessier-ashpool, cyberspace jockeys, deck, cyberspace deck, icebreaker, count zero, freeside, bobby newmark, turner, conner, angie mitchell, beauvoir, voodoo deities, trodes, biosoft, port, slot, ice, black ice, fission authority, the BAMA, josef virek, boston-atlanta metropolitan axis, maas, hosaka, wintermute, turing police, turning, turing laws
“On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero.” -Programming The Z80 by Rodnay Zaks (1982). The other night, I finally finished book II in the Sprawl series by William Gibson. Kindle for iPad, not paperback, which in itself was kind of a bummer. Somehow, I still haven’t made the transition for hard copies to […]
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