- Hardcover: 260 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group (Trd); First Printing edition (Oct 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553052500
- ISBN-13: 978-0553052503
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,358,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Brilliant… a delight to read. No one can ever hope to out-Gibson Gibson… A true original’
Sunday Times
‘Gibson’s most accomplished book to date, a futurist hybrid of Fleming and Deighton and Bester’
Time Out
‘Gibson can spin a gripping yarn. He builds up a great head of steam within the first few pages and doesn’t relax until the end’
Times Literary Supplement
‘A chillingly plausible blueprint of the near-future’
Evening Standard
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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 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.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bumping up the Overdrive Average (Two Stars! Ha! ),
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This review is from: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Paperback)
Gibson unites the themes and characters of Neuromancer and Count Zero in a blaze of icy glory. From the contaminated iron wastelands of the Sprawl to the cold anachronism of an aging London. From the endless internal landscapes of a huge lump of biochip to the attenuated life of the world's biggest star. Gibson takes us on a sad, elegant and sublime journey round the world and inside the dreams of man and machine. If you haven't met Molly, Bobby Zero, the Finn, Angie or 3-Jane before, you'll want to read the first two books to find out about them (They'll linger in your mind until you do). If you're already aquainted, you'll be pleased to hear that Gibson hasn't lost his touch with the either the old folk, or the new, introduced in this book. His themes, characters and style have matured, growing a little more abstract and difficult to handle. But hey, so have I and so does life! Indeed it's the aching similarities between the artificial reality that Gibson has created and the real thing which make this a work of literature and a thing of beauty. FIVE BIG, FAT, JUICY STARS for Mona Lisa Overdrive
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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POETIC DREAMSCAPES OF A DISTOPIC FUTURE...(Part 3),
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I have read this masterpiece (together with the other two of the Sprawl series: NEUROMANCER and COUNT ZERO) during my university years, about a decade ago. Since then I have re-read it countless times.
Many a times the third book of a trilogy is published only to fulfill contractual obligations: this is definitely NOT the case here. Every one of those three is a standalone masterpiece. Sure, the Sprawl trilogy defined cyberspace, wireheads, zaibatsu-controlled society and futuristic discontent. But this is not the reason why one enjoys these novels so much. It is the beautiful poetic language. The syncopated phrases. The direct effect of verbalized brand names. The noir feeling, rare at the time in a SF novel. William Gibson had already reaped the fame and fortune from his first two novels. In this one you will find his images more bold, his phrases more relaxed and his writing more tight. Absolutely Beautiful! Even reading only some pages brings up powerful imagery, unforgettable prose... Start with Neuromancer. Then Count Zero. And finally this one. A Masterpiece Trilogy!!! Own them all!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great conclusion to the trilogy,
By John E. Davidson (Purley) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Paperback)
It is a tribute to William Gibson that his vision of the near future was interesting enough to sustain three novels without any apparent strain.If you liked the first two books in the series (Neuromancer and Count Zero) then you will like this one, for in many ways it is the strongest book of the three. If you are unfamiliar with the first two books then this is not the place to start. There are too many references that will be incomprehensible. Recommended
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