5/21/2023 0 Comments Gibson mona lisa overdrive![]() ![]() From these disparate threads, Gibson generates one of his complex storylines. We also meet Kumiko, a Japanese girl sent to London for protection while her father is threatened by a Yakuza war Slick, a robotics mechanic living in an abandoned factory in a rusted-out wasteland somewhere in America’s heartland and the titular Mona, a Cleveland prostitute who gets entangled in a dangerous scheme far beyond her understanding. 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. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (1988) 308 p. ![]()
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