Count Zero an Explainer

Future Fictions Lab : Reverse-Engineering Tomorrow · Mar 27, 2026 · 6m

This text contains excerpts from the science fiction novel Count Zero, the second installment of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy. The narrative follows three primary threads: a corporate extraction expert named Turner who protects a high-value defector, a gallery owner named Marly investigating mysterious robotic art for the tycoon Josef Virek, and a young hacker named Bobby who survives a brush with lethal security software. These perspectives converge in a gritty cyberpunk future defined by advanced biochips, artificial intelligence, and a digital underworld where voodoo-themed entities…