It picks up several years later, following a number of different characters, the most important of whom is probably Angela Mitchell – the gifted teenager rescued from a mesa arcology in Arizona in Count Zero, who has subsequently become a world-famous simulation star. Mona Lisa Overdrive is a more direct sequel to Count Zero than Count Zero was to Neuromancer. William Gibson, incidentally, comes up with the most awesome titles. Taking a break from the Booker Prize 2011 Challenge with some classic science fiction. or so they think.Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (1988) 308 p. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes. 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. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.
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. The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Įnter 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. William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date.
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