Reception
The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Journalist Steven Poole wrote in The Guardian that "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), made up a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings."
All three books were nominated for major science fiction awards, including:
- Neuromancer - Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards winner, British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1984; Hugo Award winner, 1985
- Count Zero - Nebula and British Science Fiction awards nominee, 1986; Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1987
- Mona Lisa Overdrive - Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards nominee, 1989
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