Mona Lisa Overdrive A Novel
Mona Lisa Overdrive A Novel by William Gibson is a reissue published by Random House Worlds on February 6, 1997. This edition spans 320 pages and is presented in English. The book serves as the thrilling conclusion to Gibson’s classic Sprawl Trilogy, which began with Neuromancer. Set in a world where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws compete for dominance, the narrative explores the intersection of reality and cyberspace through the lives of its characters.
Readers will encounter Mona, a young girl with a mysterious past, whose fate intertwines with that of Angie Mitchell, a renowned virtual reality star capable of accessing cyberspace without traditional means. The plot thickens as a kidnapping scheme orchestrated by a phantom entity unfolds, threatening both Mona and Angie. The story delves into themes of technological intrigue and the influence of powerful forces, including the Yakuza and an enigmatic artificial intelligence. This edition invites readers to immerse themselves in a richly textured narrative that encapsulates the essence of cyberpunk and dystopian fiction.
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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
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