Editing Count Zero (section)

==Publication history==
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Volume 2 of the [[Sprawl trilogy]], ''Count Zero'' follows ''[[Neuromancer]]'' (1984), with the series being concluded by ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]'' (1988).<ref name=PooleGuardian1996>{{cite web|author = Poole, Steven |author-link=Steven Poole | date = 3 October 1996 | title = Virtually in Love | work = [[TheGuardian.com]] | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/1996/oct/03/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror | access-date= 8 August 2024}}</ref> It appeared in serial form in ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine]]'',<ref name = GibsonLangford_Lttr/> in the January, February, and March 1986 issues (the January being the 100th of that magazine),{{cn|date = August 2024}} where each part was accompanied by black and white art produced by J. K. Potter.{{verification needed|date = August 2024}}{{cn|date = August 2024}} The January cover of the magazine was devoted to the story, with art by [[Hisaki Yasuda]].{{cn|date = August 2024}} According to a published letter from Gibson, the magazine version was edited with his permission to contain less swearing and sexual content, in part to allow access to youth audiences in the United States.<ref name = GibsonLangford_Lttr>{{cite letter | author= Gibson, William |author-link= William Gibson |recipient= Dave Langford  |subject= Changes to the serialisation of 'Count Zero' |language= en-us |date= February 1986| orig-date = Orig. Date Unknown | url= |format= |location= |publisher= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status= |author-mask= |mode= |id= }} as presented in {{cite journal | author = Langford, Dave | date = February 1986 | title = Ansible 45... / Shameless Self-Promotion: The Letter Column | journal = Ansible | volume = 45 | format = self-published web-blog | url= http://news.ansible.co.uk/a45.html | access-date=8 August 2024 | issn = 0265-9816 | location = Reading, England | publisher = Dave Langford | quote = <small>Wm Gibson: 'Dear Fellow Hugo-Winner... I would like to point out, for the benefit of my massive and utterly devoted British following, that the version of my second novel, Count Zero, which will run in serial lumps (three) in Asimov's SF, is a special Lite version with reduced motherfucker-count and no graphic but intensely poetic and moving descriptions of oral sex... [further graphic details redacted]. I should also point out that these changes were made under my supervision and with my express approval. I agreed to go along with them, after due soul-searching, when it was pointed out to me how urgently young people in small towns in the US need fiction of this sort, and how much my new car is going to cost.'</small>}}</ref>

It was originally published in book form,{{what|date = August 2024}} in 1986.{{cn|date = August 2024}}