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Count Zero es una novela de ciencia ficción del escritor estadounidense-canadiense William Gibson, publicada originalmente en 1986. Presenta un futuro cercano cuyas tecnologías incluyen una red de supercomputadoras que crearon una "matrix" en el "ciberespacio", un "espacio interior" accesible, virtual y tridimensionalmente activo, que, para Gibson, se veía dominado por la competencia violenta entre un pequeño número de individuos muy ricos y corporaciones multinacionales. La novela está compuesta por un trío de líneas argumentales que finalmente convergen.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
“"Family organization. Corporate structure," the Finn said. "Supposedly you can buy into an S.A., but there hasn't been a share of Tessier-Ashpool traded on the open market in over a hundred years. You're looking at a very quiet, very eccentric first-generation high-orbit family. Big money, very shy of media. Lot of cloning."”
“It's a world where there aren't families. It's the world of a young person going out into the wilderness, cities, and sort of in a way creating a family. You know, it's kind of like... it's not that it's a "goth book," but it's kind of rather the same stuff that makes kids be goths.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“London was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care…Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
“The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.”
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