Gollancz William Gibsons 4 Books Collection Set

Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive are collected here in a four-book set by William Gibson. Published by Gollancz, this collection brings together novels and short fiction from Gibson’s science fiction writing.

Included titles

• Count Zero
• Burning Chrome
• Neuromancer
• Mona Lisa Overdrive

Key details

• Four-book collection set
• By William Gibson
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Includes three novels and one short story collection
• Burning Chrome includes a preface by Bruce Sterling

Synopses

Count Zero

Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus compete for world domination, with computer cowboys treated as expendable pieces in a larger corporate contest. After waking in Mexico in a new body, Turner is allowed to recover before his memory is reactivated for a high-risk assignment: escorting the head designer from Maas Biolabs, who claims he intends to defect to Hosaka.

Burning Chrome

Known for Neuromancer, William Gibson is also presented here as a writer of short fiction, with 10 stories described as taut and suspenseful. The collection includes “Johnny Mnemonic” and “Burning Chrome”, both nominated for the Nebula Award, alongside the Hugo-and-Nebula-nominated “Dogfight” and “The Winter Market”. A preface is provided by Bruce Sterling, described as co-Cyberpunk and editor of the anthology Mirrorshades.

Neuromancer

First published as Gibson’s 1984 debut, Neuromancer is credited here with revolutionising science fiction and with introducing the matrix and the term “cyberspace”. The novel is described as a stylish noir narrative and a prescient depiction of corporate power, and it is noted as the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

Presented as part thriller and part warning, it is positioned as a modern science fiction classic and a potent vision of the future, suited to adult readers of SF.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona’s life is upended when she is sold to a plastic surgeon in New York and transformed overnight into someone else. In parallel, Angie Mitchell is a famous Hollywood Sense/Net star with a special talent; despite studio efforts to keep her uninformed, she begins to remember. Her search leads towards discovering who she is, and why she does not need a deck to enter cyberspace.