Mona Lisa Overdrive
A Novel
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4.5 • 255 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The thrilling conclusion to William Gibson’s classic Sprawl Trilogy, which began with the groundbreaking Neuromancer and “open[ed] up a new genre” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Brilliant, gritty, densely textured.”—Kirkus Reviews
Enter the uniquely prescient world of the Sprawl—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.
Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous virtual reality star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese criminal syndicate, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes. But even the Yakuza is no match for the machinations of an opaque artificial intelligence, whose goals no human can hope to comprehend.
Don't miss any of the Sprawl Trilogy
NEUROMANCER • COUNT ZERO • MONA LISA OVERDRIVE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gibson burst upon the scene in 1984 with Neuromancer, a revolutionary, innovative novel that not only gathered up just about every award in the SF field, but also virtually invented a new sub-genre, which has come to be called ``cyberpunk.'' He followed it with Count Zero , set in the same neon-lit, over-urbanized, polluted, high-tech future; an even better novel, it was necessarily not as breathtakingly unfamiliar and inventive as the first. This new novel completes the series, following the lives of some of the characters from the previous books (Bobby Newmark, Count Zero himself, is here) as well as many new ones, particularly Angie Mitchell, star of simstims and idol of millions, who is intuitively sensitive to cyberspace and the vodun deities that are its manifestations. Told in a gorgeous, highly compressedalmost poeticstyle that requires the reader's attention and intelligence, this very satisfying novel can stand on its own. Major ad/promo; author tour.
Customer Reviews
Didn’t completely get it
Didn’t completely get it ……. But I feel like it was my fault…. If that makes sense
Drifted Sanctimony
Available to the path of being effective to multiple confusion, I got checked by a book and couldn't keep up. The quiz was to stay inclined to the story and I couldn't do that, built ply and barked with ridged round defense I feel inconsiderate to the closure of the moral. Each pack of chapters meant something; I deemed to not know and am reposed from the two before in the series. Thanks to the writer, by telling pact of narration and hubris connotation.
Second time through it
Relevant 30 some years later, a slow builder but good read.