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.