![]() ![]() Mitchell's family and romantic background involves creators of, and intelligences that inhabit, large chunks of cyberspace, and the four disparate plotlines steadily come together over the course of this novel, set (I am guessing) in the mid to late 21st century. Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel by William Gibson 4.2 (26) Paperback (Mass Market Paperback - Reissue) 8.99 Paperback 8.99 eBook 8.99 Audio MP3 on CD 14.99 Audio CD 14. ![]() ![]() It is like Gibson doesnt just have foresight, he has foresmell and foretaste. The textures and smells and ambiguities too. Part of it is how, like PKD, he seems to always have a sense of what is around the next two corners. Since Mona looks a lot like Angie, her pimp sells her to a secret organization that has a plastic surgeon alter her looks even further. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson is an excellent conclusion to the cyberpunk Sprawl Trilogy, and even if there are a couple of aspects in which it falters, on the whole it’s a fascinating and exciting romp through a technologically-dominated world populated by (mostly) interesting characters. William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive There is something about Gibson that keeps me coming back. In his third novel, Gibson starts with four disparate threads: 13-year-old Kuniko Yanaka is flown to secluson in London by her powerful Japanese gangster father 30-something vagrant Slick Henry hangs out in an abandoned New Jersey warehouse, building robots while his "landlord" Gentry tries to discern the shape of cyberspace megastar Angela Mitchell tries to recover her equilibrium in Malibu and decide her next career move after undergoing drug detox in Jamaica and 16-year-old (maybe) Cleveland native Mona Lisa is pimped by her boyfriend Eddy in Florida. ![]()
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