Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel
Nov 2012 · Sprawl Trilogy Book 3 · Spectra
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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
“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
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4.6
236 reviews
Dr. Leo Kelso
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September 26, 2018
Mona Lisa Overdrive is very exciting cyberpunk novel that places the reader right smack-dab into the middle of several interwoven characters storyline, and voyeurs of the corrupt multinational corporations salivating for the next best selling gear in a high-tech Marketplace.
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Mike Boast
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May 7, 2023
The third entry in the Sprawl Trilogy finds the story has run out of gas. I got fairly far into the book, but had to quit, becuz nothing was happening.
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David Broska
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January 22, 2018
But not sure it ever attains a strong enough center to keep rolling of I stop willing it
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About the author
William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.
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