The Incomparable, number 807, March 26.

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

In this episode, we are revisiting our very specific book club where we are going over the

Sprawl trilogy, the classicperpunk trilogy by William Gibson. Now, we did an episode about neuromancer, and you might be thinking, well, I didn't know that was a series. It was just neuromancer. But at the end, we all started talking about Count Zero, and Eric goes like, I don't know if I want to read it. And we said, it's really different. And she said, oh, I didn't realize that it isn't the same characters.

And, you know, you could read between the lines.

If I didn't say in that episode, we're just going to have to come back and do Count Zero as an episode. I should have because I would have been right because you're listening to it now. Anyway, let me introduce my panelists who are here to talk about Count Zero, the second book in the sprawl trilogy by William Gibson.

Boy, what an intro that was.

Glenn Fleischman, hello.

Hello. My name is Samedi, and you have slain my horse Okay Erica Anzine is here

Hi

Hi I'm actually way more excited to be here today than I was last time

And Anthony Johnston is here

Hello

I'm sorry Jason they put a slam hound on my trail in New Delhi

I'm out

Yeah that's good I love it I love it when the clever reference comes from the first sentence of the book.

It's literally a lot of work. No spoilers. A lot of effort.

I honestly forgot how this book opened. I had an amnesia problem. It can be explained for various reasons.

Age and whatever.

But I read this book, I think just a few months ago before we reread, before we reading Naromancer.

And coming back to it, I'm like, did I, did I, I read Mona Lisa Overdrive also somewhere last year.

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