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* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Jayne Slider takes the loss of her boyfriend very personally. She takes out the murderer seconds after being told who it is. The AI calling itself "Baron Semedi" also gets upset at [[spoiler: the death of Jackie]] and goes after [[spoiler: Virek]] on his home turf as a result.
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* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Jayne Slider takes the loss of her boyfriend very personally. She takes out the murderer (and two whole floors of a building) seconds after being told who it is. The AI calling itself "Baron Semedi" also gets upset at [[spoiler: the death of Jackie]] and goes after [[spoiler: Virek]] on his home turf as a result.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Alain, who is murdered by Herr Virek's henchmen after he gives up the info on the boxes to Marly]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Alain, who is murdered by Herr Virek's - or possibly Maas biolab's - henchmen after he gives up the info on the boxes to Marly]].
* DoubleAgent: A few. [[spoiler: Conroy has two plants that don't know about each other on Turner's extraction team, and Conroy himself turns out to be working for Virek]]
* KissMeImVirtual: Bobby has a "holoporn" projector that puts several girls on the walls of his bedroom, but he doesn't care about the girls anymore - he just likes how it makes the room seem bigger.
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** Angie also mentions dreaming of a woman with mirrors for eyes and a man that helped the Matrix "become whole". This of course refers to [[spoilers: Molly's mirrorshades and Case turning the Matrix into a giant superintelligence by merging Neuromancer and Wintermute.]]
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* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.'' And The Finn gives a quick recap of [[{{Neuromancer}} the Straylight run]] for Bobby and Lucas, though he doesn't mention Case, Molly, or Armitage by name.
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* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.'' And ''Neuromancer'', and The Finn gives a quick recap of [[{{Neuromancer}} the Straylight run]] for Bobby and Lucas, though he doesn't mention Case, Molly, or Armitage by name.name.
* TheDragon: Paco, to Herr Virek.
* TheDragon: Paco, to Herr Virek.
* TheFundamentalist: Wigan Ludgate.
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* XtremeKoolLetterz: The Gothicks. And the Kasuals.
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''Count Zero'' is the 1986 sequel to WilliamGibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}'', and the second book in the ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy''. While not as well known as Neuromancer, it's still an excellent read.
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''Count Zero'' is the 1986 sequel to WilliamGibson's Creator/WilliamGibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}'', and the second book in the ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy''. While not as well known as Neuromancer, it's still an excellent read.
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''Count Zero'' is the 1986 sequel to {{William Gibson}}'s ''{{Neuromancer}}'', and the second book in the Sprawl Trilogy. While not as well known as Neuromancer, it's still an excellent read.
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''Count Zero'' is the 1986 sequel to {{William Gibson}}'s WilliamGibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}'', and the second book in the Sprawl Trilogy.''Literature/SprawlTrilogy''. While not as well known as Neuromancer, it's still an excellent read.
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''Count Zero'' is the 1986 sequel to William Gibson's {{William Gibson}}'s ''{{Neuromancer}}'', and the second book in the Sprawl Trilogy. While not as well known as Neuromancer, it's still an excellent read.
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* Fiction500: Oh yeah, Virek's definitely up there. When any action taken with your assets can potentially destabilize the economies of a couple ''nations'', you know you're rich.
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* ShapedLikeItself: Bobby's condo has carpet-colored carpet and curtain-colored curtains.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Marley has to order a special accessory program to make her phone filter calls from numbers not in her permanent directory; today, that's a standard freeware app for most smartphones.
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Wait, ''no.'' It's about the wannabe console cowboy Bobby. After narrowly avoiding death twice, he finds himself in over his head in a world of computer hackers, shady dealings and voodoo gods.
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Wait, ''no.'' It's about the wannabe console cowboy Bobby.Bobby Newmark. After narrowly avoiding death twice, he finds himself in over his head in a world of computer hackers, shady dealings and voodoo gods.
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* SwitchingPOV: The POV rotates between Turner, Bobby, and Marly. And the next-to-last chapter is told from the POV of [[spoiler: Tally Isham, a famous simstim actress who is briefly mentioned early in the book]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to a "count zero interrupt", a type of computer crash that can occur when the AI gets into a computer system. Count Zero is also Bobby's street handle ("Count", as in the aristocratic title).
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* HollywoodVoodoo: Averted. Beauvoir and co. are normal if rather superstitious people who happen to follow the voodoo religion.
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''Count Zero'' is about a freelance mercenary named Turner. After a botched job destroys much of his body, he is given a new one by his employers and enjoys some well-deserved R&R with a beautiful woman in the Mediterranean. Against his wishes, his vacation is cut short when his handler Conroy sends him on a job to extract a talented scientist from Maas Biolabs.
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''Count Zero'' is about a freelance mercenary named Turner. After a botched job destroys much of his body, he is given a new one by his employers and enjoys some well-deserved R&R with a beautiful woman in on the Mediterranean.Mexican coast. Against his wishes, his vacation is cut short when his handler Conroy sends him on a job to extract a talented scientist from Maas Biolabs.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: The Kasuals, a vicious Barrytown street gang, take this trope UpToEleven. They habitually dress in elaborate formal garb that includes silk brocade and lace cravats. Even when they're wasting punks on the streets.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Dutchman.
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* DressedToKill: The Kasuals, a vicious Barrytown street gang, take this trope UpToEleven. They habitually dress in elaborate formal garb that includes silk brocade and lace cravats. Even when they're wasting punks on the streets.
* [[FlyingCar Hover Car]]: Turner and Angie use one to get to the Sprawl.
* ParentalNeglect: Sadly, Bobby endures a lot of this from his mother. Having soap operas broadcast into her mind 24/7 via brain implants doesn't exactly help.
** Similarly, [[spoiler: Turner finds out that Mitchell was augmented by AI technology that enhanced his intelligence. But he doesn't find out how this happened. Or why...]]
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* MrExposition: The Finn, a minor character from ''{{Neuromancer}}'' briefly assumes this role.
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* ManInTheMachine: Herr Virek hopes to become one (after all, it's a big step up from being stuck in a [[PeopleJars Person Jar]]).
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* TheFundamentalist: Wigan Ludgate.
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* CallBack: In the final scene of the novel, [[spoiler: Turner takes his now-seven year old son to visit the squirrel wood where he crashed his plane during the Mitchell extraction]].
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* DemonicPossession: The AIs come across as this when they speak through [[spoiler: Angie Mitchell via the implants in her brain]].
* GrandFinale: The shootout at Jammer's club, where all three sets of characters finally meet.
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* DemonicPossession: The AIs come across as this when they speak through [[spoiler: Angie Mitchell via the implants in her brain]].
* DemotedToExtra: The Tessier-Ashpool family (the main antagonists from ''{{Neuromancer}}'') have faded into obscurity by the events of ''Count Zero''.
* GrandFinale: The shootout at Jammer's club, where all threesets of characters subplots finally meet.converge.
* DemotedToExtra: The Tessier-Ashpool family (the main antagonists from ''{{Neuromancer}}'') have faded into obscurity by the events of ''Count Zero''.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Wigan Ludgate did this for a while after he became convinced that God was dwelling in cyberspace, and eventually travelled into space. [[spoiler: Marly runs into him at the abandoned Freeside space station]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: Angie is a simstim actress working as a understudy to the famous Tally Isham, andBobby she is in a relationship with Bobby, who now works as her bodyguard. Meanwhile, Turner is happily married to Sally (his brother Rudy's ex-wife), and he has a son with her]].
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* RecurringCharacter: The Finn is the only character to appear in both ''CountZero'' and ''{{Neuromancer}}'', though he only has a minor role in each.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Alain, who is murdered by Herr Virek's henchmen after he gives up the info on the boxes to Marly]].
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* CreepyChild: Angie Mitchell has shades of this, [[spoiler: particularly when the AI constructs begin speaking through her à la DemonicPossession]].
* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.'''' And The Finn gives a quick recap of [[{{Neuromancer}} the Straylight run]] for Bobby and Lucas, though he doesn't mention Case, Molly, or Armitage by name.
* DemonicPossession: The AIs come across as this when they speak through [[spoiler: Angie Mitchell via the implants in her brain]].
* GrandFinale: The shootout at Jammer's club, where all three sets of characters finally meet.
* GrimReaper: The AI sometimes takes the form of Baron Samedi, the voodoo god of death. [[spoiler: At the end, it assumes this form when it kills Virek]].
* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.
* DemonicPossession: The AIs come across as this when they speak through [[spoiler: Angie Mitchell via the implants in her brain]].
* GrandFinale: The shootout at Jammer's club, where all three sets of characters finally meet.
* GrimReaper: The AI sometimes takes the form of Baron Samedi, the voodoo god of death. [[spoiler: At the end, it assumes this form when it kills Virek]].
* MagicFromTechnology: Played with. The AI constructs try to emulate the Loa (gods) of the voodoo religion, and Beauvoir and his allies seem to understand them as both.
* MrExposition: The Finn, a minor character from ''{{Neuromancer}}'' briefly assumes this role.
* OnlyOneName: Turner.
* RecurringCharacter: The Finn is the only character to appear in both ''CountZero'' and ''{{Neuromancer}}'', though he only has a minor role in each.
* SmugSnake: Alain, Marly's ex-lover.
* MrExposition: The Finn, a minor character from ''{{Neuromancer}}'' briefly assumes this role.
* OnlyOneName: Turner.
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* TheDragon: Paco, to Herr Virek.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The boxes are being made by a robot. Marly doesn't find out who made the robot.]]]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: Angie is a simstim actress working as a understudy to the famous Tally Isham, and Bobby is her bodyguard. Meanwhile, Turner is happily married to Sally (his brother Rudy's ex-wife), and he has a son with her]].
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The boxes are being made by a robot. Marly doesn't find out who made the robot.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler: Angie is a simstim actress working as a understudy to the famous Tally Isham, and Bobby is her bodyguard. Meanwhile, Turner is happily married to Sally (his brother Rudy's ex-wife), and he has a son with her]].
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This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Virek, who turns out to be the common thread in all three stories.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:As it turns out, everything was set up by Virek.]]
* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.''
* HandCannon: Turner's Smith & Wesson revolver.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Averted. Beauvoir and co. are normal if rather superstitious people who happen to follow the voodoo religion.
* TagalongKid: Bobby spends most of the novel following around the people who actually know what's going on.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:The biochip designer Mitchell organised the extraction with the intention of saving his daughter instead of himself.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The boxes are being made by a robot. Marly doesn't find out who made the robot.]]
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This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Virek, who turns out to be the common thread in all three stories.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:As it turns out, everything was set up by Virek.]]
* ContinuityNod: There's quite a few references to the fate of the Tessier-Ashpools following the events of ''Neuromancer.''
* HandCannon: Turner's Smith & Wesson revolver.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Averted. Beauvoir and co. are normal if rather superstitious people who happen to follow the voodoo religion.
* TagalongKid: Bobby spends most of the novel following around the people who actually know what's going on.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:The biochip designer Mitchell organised the extraction with the intention of saving his daughter instead of himself.]]
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The boxes are being made by a robot. Marly doesn't find out who made the robot.]]
