Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book)

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Katherine Stuart, November 29, 2008 (view all comments by Katherine Stuart)
The Count returns! It’s a fantastic ending to the trilogy. Angie – the girl with the ability to mentally connect to the internet – is back. As is Sally or Molly as she’s known in Neuromancer. New characters come in – Kukimo – a young, Japanese girl; and Mona – a young American junkie. There’s the damaged Slick Henry who builds fabulous, huge automatons to exorcise his demons. The plot is fun – 3Jane is jealous of Angie – now an international simstim star – and plans to kill her and replace her with Mona who naturally looks very similar and with some plastic surgery is close enough for the masses so that few will know.

It’s wonderful, beautiful. Bobby and Angie are still deeply in love though through most of the book they are inexplicably separated and Bobby is deep in a personally constructed cyberspace.

The story mainly centers on Angie and Mona – Angie is all grown-up fighting an addiction to a designer drug, missing Bobby, and generally having entered a state of ennui regarding stardom. Mona has been dragged into some kind of scheme by her loser boyfriend who swears this – finally – is their (his) way up. He ends up dead.

Kukimo seems to be mainly an fanciful device to create new technologies and a nod to the increasing importance of Japan in technological advancement. An important detail in 1988.

As usual Gibson’s prose is pristine and superbly paced. I’m still really invested Bobby’s fate, and as much as the story revolves around the women I’m most drawn to Slick Henry. Gibson doesn’t perfectly handle all the themes. The transition from biological to technological beings that both Bobby and Angie undergo is not handled with as much deftness as I would have expected. He does a much better job of this transition in All Tomorrow’s Parties. But he does make it sweet and romantic. I would say overall the book has a very sweet, romantic vibe that is touching.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780553281743

Author:

Gibson, William

Publisher:

Spectra Books

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Science Fiction - General

Subject:

Computers

Subject:

Surgery, Plastic

Subject:

Twenty-first century

Subject:

Internet

Subject:

Internet (Computer network) -- Fiction.

Subject:

Science / General

Subject:

Science Fiction and Fantasy-A to Z

Copyright:

1988

Edition Description:

Mass market paperback

Series:

Bantam Spectra Book

Series Volume:

125.

Publication Date:

19970231

Binding:

MASS MARKET

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

320

Dimensions:

6.90x4.30x.87 in. .34 lbs.