Paperback, 360 pages
Spanish language
Published Sept. 13, 2002 by Minotauro.
Turner, mercenario corporativo, despierta en un cuerpo reconstruido, con una bella mujer a su lado. Luego, la Corporación Hosaka lo reactiva para una misión más peligrosa que aquella de la que se está recuperando: el jefe de I+D de Maas-Neotek deserta. Turner es el asignado para sacarlo intacto, junto con el biochip que perfeccionó. Pero esto demuestra ser de supremo interés para otras partes, algunas de las cuales no son ni remotamente humanas. Bobby Newmark es completamente humano: un estafador de datos del cinturón industrial totalmente desprevenido para lo que se le presenta cuando la deserción desencadena una guerra en el ciberespacio. Con vudú en la Red y un precio por su cabeza, Newmark cree que solo está tratando de salir con vida. Una parábola del futuro con estilo, inteligente y aterradoramente probable y secuela de Neuromancer
Turner, mercenario corporativo, despierta en un cuerpo reconstruido, con una bella mujer a su lado. Luego, la Corporación Hosaka lo reactiva para una misión más peligrosa que aquella de la que se está recuperando: el jefe de I+D de Maas-Neotek deserta. Turner es el asignado para sacarlo intacto, junto con el biochip que perfeccionó. Pero esto demuestra ser de supremo interés para otras partes, algunas de las cuales no son ni remotamente humanas. Bobby Newmark es completamente humano: un estafador de datos del cinturón industrial totalmente desprevenido para lo que se le presenta cuando la deserción desencadena una guerra en el ciberespacio. Con vudú en la Red y un precio por su cabeza, Newmark cree que solo está tratando de salir con vida. Una parábola del futuro con estilo, inteligente y aterradoramente probable y secuela de Neuromancer
Es mejor novela que neuromante, en el sentido en que ganó todo eso que un buen escritor de género tiene: dinámica, elipsis. El texto no es tan barroco y cargado como las primera páginas de neuromante y no estoy seguro de que eso esté bien. Pero así se fue dando. Algunas cosas quedaron viejísimas, pero lo importante es que es entretenida.
Count Zero is great. In many ways, it’s an even better novel than Neuromancer, and the intensity and pacing of the story is just as strong. What sets it apart, I think, is its style. It’s just better written, but it loses some of its totalizing technological naturalism.
Superintelligent AI/capital spares no victims, and it appears much more Gothic than cybernetic in this text. It’s a great depiction.
I just want to see more of Bobby Newmark. I feel like he needs to be as central as Case was in the preceding text.
I remember feeling like this one was kind of mid when I read it back in the day, but this time it really sang to me.
July 15, 2024 [ESP] Se me ha hecho más complicado de leer que su primera parte, sobre todo porque añade otra capa de complejidad añadiendo más puntos de vista. Supongo que sí lo hubiera seguido mejor me hubiera gustado más. Leeré el tercero aún así.
[ENG] I found this one more difficult to read than the first part, mostly due to the extra layer of complexity added by there being several POV. I guess I'd have liked it more ihad ai been able to follow it better. I'll read the third one nonetheless
July 15, 2024 [ESP] Se me ha hecho más complicado de leer que su primera parte, sobre todo porque añade otra capa de complejidad añadiendo más puntos de vista. Supongo que sí lo hubiera seguido mejor me hubiera gustado más. Leeré el tercero aún así.
[ENG] I found this one more difficult to read than the first part, mostly due to the extra layer of complexity added by there being several POV. I guess I'd have liked it more ihad ai been able to follow it better. I'll read the third one nonetheless
V poho ctivy, celkem linearni, zadnej mindfuck. Nektery technologicky veci vtipny (tomu se proste nikdo nevyhne, ze vytahne nakou davno mrtvou technologii do budoucnosti).
Lovely read, recommended for those that liked Neuromancer and those that tried to like it. It works standalone and might be worth a try if, like me, you had trouble getting through the first part.
Three stories, that seem unrelated at first but interweave beautifully towards the end, each contributing to the satisfying ending. Each story expands on a different part of the retro futuristic vision Gibson established in Neuromancer. We explore different locations in America (mainly the sprawl of the east coast, between Boston and New York), Paris, Brussels and Earth's orbit, through the eyes of a newbie hacker, a mercenary and an art curator.
In a way the world feels more grounded than in Neuromancer, while the themes are even more esoteric. Gibson foregoes technical feasibility in favour of something that could be described as cyber-magic. Sure, you could potentially try to explain how jockeys establish …
Lovely read, recommended for those that liked Neuromancer and those that tried to like it. It works standalone and might be worth a try if, like me, you had trouble getting through the first part.
Three stories, that seem unrelated at first but interweave beautifully towards the end, each contributing to the satisfying ending. Each story expands on a different part of the retro futuristic vision Gibson established in Neuromancer. We explore different locations in America (mainly the sprawl of the east coast, between Boston and New York), Paris, Brussels and Earth's orbit, through the eyes of a newbie hacker, a mercenary and an art curator.
In a way the world feels more grounded than in Neuromancer, while the themes are even more esoteric. Gibson foregoes technical feasibility in favour of something that could be described as cyber-magic. Sure, you could potentially try to explain how jockeys establish some kind of, potentially lethal, neural link with the cyberspace, but it works just fine within the story. Really, this is not for you if you prefer long technical info-dumps.
This is book is definitely one of my SF favorites.
The weaving of threads often tangles. sadly sometimes the resolution doesn’t excuse the confusion along the way
It takes a while until the suspense eventually builds up. Otherwise, a great cyberpunk read, but with less cyber than Neuromancer had.
Excellent book and a great continuation of "Neuromancer" It was a lot of fun to read!
Excellent book and a great continuation of "Neuromancer" It was a lot of fun to read!
Reseña completa: http://markapaginas.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/conde-cero-william-gibson.html
En este caso nos encontramos con tres protagonistas y tres historias que a priori no tienen nada que ver ni entre ellas ni con los sucesos de Neuromante, pero que luego, poco a poco van encajando como las fichas de un puzzle; y aunque nos dejemos algún cabo suelto creo que en este caso la historia no es tan confusa como en el primer libro, y aunque también calla mucho no me resultó tan caótica como él.
On rereading, this one holds up well. I forgot how similar the plot is to Pattern Recognition. It gets either hard to follow or hand-wavy at the end, or possibly both... I didn't care enough to try to reconstruct everything that was happening, and why.
On rereading, this one holds up well. I forgot how similar the plot is to Pattern Recognition. It gets either hard to follow or hand-wavy at the end, or possibly both... I didn't care enough to try to reconstruct everything that was happening, and why.
