Mona Lisa Overdrive

By William Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
  • Release Date: 1988-10-01
  • Genre: Science Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
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Description

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, 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 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.

Reviews

  • Second time through it

    5
    By Untaken12345
    Relevant 30 some years later, a slow builder but good read.
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive

    5
    By 3rick3
    Love this and the other two books of this ilk.