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William Gibson

Count Zero by William Gibson takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Sprawl trilogy

Previous: New Rose Hotel Next: Mona Lisa Overdrive

About 5 hours 25 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1986. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 1 minute
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 25 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. The second novel of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero is a stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to Neuromancer.

Subjects: Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Sprawl Trilogy, Virtual reality, Fiction

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