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- Behind the scenesWhere cyberspace was born
The word cyberspace first appears in the story "Burning Chrome," published in Omni in July 1982. Gibson coined it for computer networks pictured as a graphic space.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA reading for four
Gibson first read "Burning Chrome" aloud in Denver in 1981, to four listeners. One was Bruce Sterling, who, Gibson said, "completely got it." Sterling wrote the collection's preface.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo stories on film
"Johnny Mnemonic" became a 1995 movie starring Keanu Reeves, written by Gibson himself. Abel Ferrara filmed "New Rose Hotel" in 1998. The trilogy's novels never made it to the big screen.
source ↗ - ReferenceMolly came first
The mirrorshaded hired gun who guards Johnny in 1981's "Johnny Mnemonic" is Molly. Gibson liked her enough to bring her back in his first novel.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe most quoted line
"The street finds its own uses for things" comes from "Burning Chrome." It's about people using technology in ways its makers never planned, and it still gets quoted today.
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- Behind the scenesAn Ace commission
Gibson wrote the book on commission for Terry Carr's second run of Ace Science Fiction Specials. It was his first novel.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesRewritten 12 times
Gibson rewrote the first two-thirds of the book 12 times and worked with no real outline, in what he called "blind animal panic." He also admitted he didn't know much about computers.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe triple crown
It's the only novel to win the Hugo, the Nebula and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2005, Time named it one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923.
source ↗ - ReferenceVocabulary borrowed from the stories
Cyberspace and jacking in had already shown up in the 1981 story "Burning Chrome." The novel took those ideas worldwide, along with terms like ICE and flatlining.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFinally on screen
After decades of movie attempts that never got made, the book became an Apple TV series, with Callum Turner as Case and Briana Middleton as Molly. It premieres January 22, 2027.
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- Behind the scenesCover of issue 100
The book was first serialized in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine from January to March 1986. The January issue, the magazine's 100th, put the story on the cover. Gibson approved a version with less swearing and sex.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWhere the title comes from
Count Zero is Bobby's handle and a play on the computing term "count zero interrupt." The book explains it as an instruction: on receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero.
source ↗ - ReferenceJoseph Cornell's boxes
The boxes Marly is chasing mimic those of American artist Joseph Cornell, known for small assemblages made from found objects. He was real and died in 1972.
source ↗ - SetupGods in the matrix
The hackers who take Bobby in talk about voodoo loa now showing up in cyberspace. Think about who they might really be: the answer ties this book to the first one.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesUp for everything
It was nominated for the Nebula and the BSFA Award in 1986, and for the Hugo and the Locus in 1987. Critic Dave Langford called it "a far better novel" than Neuromancer.
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- ReferenceBorges's Aleph
The book's Aleph is named after Jorge Luis Borges's story, in which the Aleph is a point that contains every other point in the universe.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesReal robots
Slick Henry's robot sculptures were inspired by Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs, known for shows where machines fight and tear each other apart.
source ↗ - ReferenceA new name
The woman guarding Kumiko in London now goes by Sally Shears. Anyone who read Neuromancer will spot Molly Millions in her first scenes.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA title turned track
The book's title names a Juno Reactor and Don Davis track on The Matrix Reloaded score. The novel was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula for Best Novel.
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