Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson is the final book in the Sprawl series, bringing together various storylines from the previous books. The plot involves intertwined narratives of characters like Angie Mitchell, a cyberspace celebrity, Kumiko, a young Japanese girl with a mobster father, and Slick and Gentry living in the wasteland. The writing style is described as dense, detailed, and high tech, with a focus on character development and a grand climax that ties up loose ends from the series.
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Content warnings include themes of drug addiction, violence, and references to sex work, which may be sensitive for some readers.
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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, 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.
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About the Author:
William Gibson is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace" and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties,…
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