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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic 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 Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.  Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.  Now, from inside ...
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Overview

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic 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 Sense/Net 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 Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

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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. (Nov.)
Library Journal
Able to enter the vast data network known as ``cyberspace'' at will, Sense/Net celebrity Angie Mitchell becomes the center of a bizarre kidnap/murder scheme in which her only allies are the daughter of a Japanese mobster, a cybernetically enhanced assassin, and a computer ``cowboy'' who lives entirely in the confines of cyberspace. Gibson's dazzling, high-tech prose enhances the drama of this sequel to Count Zero . Recommended for sf collections. JC
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Thomas Disch
The new novel has plenty of flash...quick, high-intensity glimpses that linger on the retina of the imagination. -- New York Times Book Review

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780553281743
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 2/28/1997
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 154,638
  • Series: Sprawl Trilogy Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.89 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Meet the Author

William Gibson
William Gibson
William Gibson's feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal "cyberpunk" novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers.

Biography

Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology.

Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. When he was 15, he was sent away to private school in Arizona, but he left without graduating when his mother died suddenly. He fled to Canada to avoid the draft and immersed himself in '60s counterculture. He married, moved to British Columbia, and enrolled in college, graduating in 1977 with a degree in English. Around this time he began to write in earnest, combining his lifelong love of science fiction and his newfound passion for the punk music evolving in New York and London.

In the early 1980s, Gibson met writer and punk musician John Shirley and sci-fi authors Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling. All three were blown away by the power and originality of Gibson's stories, and together the four men went on to forge a radical new literary movement called cyberpunk. In 1984, Gibson's groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, was published. Daring and revolutionary, it envisioned such techno-marvels as AI, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational capitalism years before they became realities. Although it was not an immediate sensation, Neuromancer struck a chord with hardcore sci-fi fans who turned it into a word-of-mouth hit. Then it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards (the Triple Crown of Science Fiction), catapulting Gibson into superstardom overnight.

Even if he had never written another word, Gibson's impact would be clearly seen in the works of such cutting-edge contemporary authors as Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Paul DiFilippo. But, as it is, Neuromancer was just the beginning -- the first book in an inspired trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre; and since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a steampunk classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and such imaginative post-9/11 cyber thrillers as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country .

    1. Also Known As:
      William Ford Gibson (full name)
    2. Hometown:
      Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 17, 1948
    2. Place of Birth:
      Conway, South Carolina
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of British Columbia, 1977

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2004

    Exciting yet unsatisfying conclusion to Sprawl trilogy

    In Mona Lisa Overdrive, cyberpunk godfather William Gibson attempts to bring his high-flying Sprawl trilogy to a soft landing. Gibson re-introduces characters from the first two books of the series (Neuromancer and Count Zero) and brings them together with new characters while continuing to pursue his loose plot involving the evolution of artifical life. Gibson paints a bleak near-future landscape and populates it with edgy characters. The plot moves at a brisk clip, and Gibson's prose is typically poetic, but the ending, like those of many of Gibson's offerings, is unsatisfying. It still won't distract you from enjoying an otherwise great read.

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  • Posted May 28, 2009

    William Gibson is one of the authors that has stepped over the line of political correctness in literature.

    Mona Lisa Overdrive is a very interesting novel. I do have to say William Gibson is one of the authors that has stepped over the line of political correctness in literature. The way he throws around sexuality and curse words is distasteful, even if it creates a realistic environment in our current time. I hate to say it, but his style facilitates the presentation of some very intuitive concepts about the world today. The creativity in the plot and new genre is impeccably different. Most stories have been told before but with a little different plot each time, however reading this book had me curious what was going to happen next. Mona Lisa Overdrive is hard to get into, especially if you have not read a William Gibson book before. Gibson uses this technique of writing two or more stories and them splitting them up into chapters. After that he intertwines them to make a book. This makes it especially hard for procrastinators like me to read his books because once they get back to reading the book, they forget what happened and need to reread. This book has four stories going on at once which makes it hard to get into and understand. Another thing that makes Gibson's books hard to read is his metaphors that go on for .oh about half a page, which is another short attention span folly of the currant generations.
    Conclusively I state, that the more you read his books, the easier they are to comprehend and follow. Personally, I secretly started to enjoy the formatting of his books because it added an element of mystery to my love of sifi. Although, If I were to rate this book on a scale from 1 to 5, I would give it a 3 because it is not very reader friendly.

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  • Posted May 4, 2009

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    Doesn't age well

    Borrow it or go to the library, but definitely read it before you buy it. Everything I read about this book painted is as some kind of revolutionary book that screams cyberpunk. I couldn't find the cyber. As for the punk, I don't know where it was hiding. I think 10-15 years ago this book would have blown minds. In 2009 it's rife with antique ideas and a limited view of cyber-society. I think the whole point of this novel was to wow the reader with crazy future inventions like "downloadable interactive movies" (MMO anyone) the proliferation of drugs (oh and plastic surgery). Like any older "future" story the future is stranger than they ever imagined. I like fantasy, I like some sci-fi, and I'm a fan of alternate reality fiction. For me it was like reading circa 1900 story about futuristic steam powered cars.

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