Three storylines run in parallel across a world where the AIs unleashed at the end of Neuromancer have fragmented into something stranger and more numerous - entities that present as the loa of Haitian voodoo, manifesting in the matrix with their own purposes and personalities. Turner is a corporate mercenary hired to extract a defecting scientist from Maas-Neotek. Bobby Newmark is a teenage hacker from the rustbelt who nearly dies on his first run into the matrix and is saved by something he can't explain. Marly Krushkhova is an art dealer hired by a reclusive billionaire to find the source of mysterious Cornell-style boxes appearing on the black market. Gibson weaves these threads together slowly, and the convergence is worth the patience. Darker and more structurally ambitious than Neuromancer.
