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Count Zero by William Gibson
3.0

More 3 1/2 stars really, a very interesting read indeed, like Dashiell Hammett wrote high tech thrillers - the sparse hardboiled prose really suits Gibson's prose. However at times the slang made it a touch hard to follow at times, and I really wanted more development of Gibson's cyberspace 'matrix.'

Obviously being from 1986 the book has dated a bit, mobile phones being the main elephant in the computer. Apart from that though fascinating stuff and when opportunity permits, a reading of Neuromancer is definitely called for.