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Count Zero

Sprawl Trilogy, Book 2

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Count Zero

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Kyle Soller, Sebastián Capitán Viveros, Alix Wilton Regan
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They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair.

When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable.

When Turner wakes up in Mexico—in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him—his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while, then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him: the head designer from Maas Biolabs says he wants to defect to Hosaka, and it's Turner's job to deliver him safely.

Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive....

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This is a disappointing production of one of my favourite Gibson novels. Using three voices was a great idea and worked well for the most part (Turner was excellent) but some of the accents (Paco) and character delivery (Finn) were objectively off. The Bobby narration was also sloppy at times - mispronounced heteronyms and character accents bleeding into non-speaking parts - which distracted from the story. Hopefully the producer takes more care with Mona Lisa Overdrive!

Disappointing production

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One of the male voices was pretty bad at times - timing would ignore phrasing and punctuation; accents would continue after a character had finished speaking. Made it a hard listen and caused me to frequently switch to reading. I probably listened to only ~25%, which is significantly less than I had intended.

Very average performance.

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I feel bad for the two other narrators as it’s just let down by the third. Some weird difficult to listen to drawl for Bobby and then almost unintelligible accent for the two sorcerer/priests and then straight over to The Finn, a small rat like man with the voice of LeBron James. Tried to persist but had to return it.

Great book. 1/3 bad narration.

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