William Gibson Count Zero Audiobook Exclusive -

1. Overview: What is Count Zero?

Into the Sprawl: Revisiting William Gibson’s Count Zero Through Its Audible Exclusive

The Verdict: Immediate Download Recommended

• Positive: Davis captures the “cool, detached but urgent” tone of Gibson’s prose. His Turner and Marly are well-acted.
• Negative: Some fans of the 1980s Prichard version prefer its grittier, less polished delivery. Davis’s Bobby Newmark (Count Zero) sounds older than the teen character.
• Overall: Widely considered the definitive modern edition.

For years, Count Zero held a strange status in the publishing world. While Neuromancer enjoyed multiple audio productions (including a famous version read by the author himself, and the newer full-cast production), Count Zero was left by the wayside.

1. Turner: A corporate mercenary and “biological demolition expert” who extracts defecting scientists. After a double-cross leaves him literally blown to pieces, he’s rebuilt and tasked with retrieving a stolen bio-software box—only to discover the box contains fragments of a rogue AI.
2. Marly Krushkhova: A disgraced Parisian art dealer hired by an enigmatic billionaire to track down the creator of bizarre, abstract “box constructions.” Her journey leads her from high-art galleries to the Haitian underworld of cyberspace voodoo.
3. Bobby Newmark (aka “Count Zero”): A self-styled console cowboy from the projects who steals a piece of black ice-breaking software called “The Black Whip.” When it backfires, he’s saved by an entity claiming to be the loa—a voodoun spirit—of cyberspace.

Linguistic Immersion:

Gibson’s "street samurai" slang is better understood through vocal inflection. william gibson count zero audiobook exclusive