Count Zero

Name: Count Zero
Author: William Gibson

1986 novel by William Gibson

Written workliterary workQ2384854

Author: William Gibson
1
Sources
1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-17
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Released: January 1986
Publisher: Gollancz
Language: American English
, English
Genre: cyberpunk
, science fiction
Follows: Neuromancer
Followed by: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Awards: 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
1
Sources
1.“20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction - Wikipedia”
View statement on Wikidata ↗

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It presents a near future whose technologies include a network of supercomputers that created a "matrix" in "cyberspace", an accessible, virtual, three-dimensionally active "inner space", which, for Gibson, was seen as being dominated by violent competition between small numbers of very rich individuals and multinational corporations. The novel is composed of a trio of plot lines that ultimately converge.

Overview

All data

33 statements · 27% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Part of the series: Sprawl trilogy follows: Neuromancer · followed by: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Country of origin: United States
Form of creative work: novel
1
Sources
1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-04-27
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Title: Count Zero
1
Sources
1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-17
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Comte Zéro
Giù nel ciberspazio (Complete Novel)
Nominations: Hugo Award for Best Novel(1987)
1
Sources
1.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1987-hugo-awards/
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel(1987)
1
Sources
1.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1987
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Nebula Award for Best Novel(1987)
1
Sources
1.nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/1986/Retrieved 2025-06-02
View statement on Wikidata ↗
BSFA Award for Best Novel(1986)
1
Sources
1.sfadb.com/British_SF_Association_Awards_1986
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Has version, edition or translation: Q126715920 language: French

On other databases

11 identifiers linking Count Zero across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

27%

externally sourced

Source last edited May 6, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q2384854

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). Count Zero (Q2384854). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/count-zero-Q2384854