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William Gibson (Author)
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Publication Date: 27 Nov 1995

The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.

Mona’s pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she’s turned overnight into someone else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She’s a sweet, dumb girl… so far.

Angie the famous Hollywood stim star has started remembering things. Despite the efforts of studio bosses to keep her in ignorance, Angie will discover who she really is… and why she doesn’t need to jack into the Matrix in order to enter cyberspace.

In the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry obsessively seeks the darkest secrets of the Matrix. Seeking rapture.

When an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it, Angie is part of it, and Mona is set for overdrive. Rapture is on the agenda for all three, but others greedy for money and power will fight them to the death.

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Voyager; New Ed edition (27 Nov 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0006480446
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006480440
  • Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,992 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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Mona’s pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she’s turned overnight into someone else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She’s a sweet, dumb girl … so far.

But in the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry is obsessively seeking the darkest secrets of the Matrix. Seeking rapture. So that when an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it …

And Mona is set for overdrive. Rapture is on the agenda for both of them, but others greedy for money and power will fight them to the death, whatever 'death' means.

“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

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bumping up the Overdrive Average (Two Stars! Ha! ) 6 Oct 2000
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Format: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
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars POETIC DREAMSCAPES OF A DISTOPIC FUTURE...(Part 3) 27 Sep 2007
By NeuroSplicer TOP 100 REVIEWER
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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!!!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great conclusion to the trilogy 21 Jan 2005
By John E. Davidson
Format: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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