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Mona Lisa Overdrive
First published 1987 · 362 pages
A neon-lit, hallucinatory plunge into a world where the ghosts of the digital matrix collide with the grit of the physical streets.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like jacking directly into a neon-drenched, hyper-stimulated nervous system. The narrative moves with a propulsive, fragmented energy, cutting rapidly between disparate lives that are slowly being pulled into the same massive, invisible gravity well. The prose is dense and poetic, layering gritty street-level cynicism with moments of transcendent, hallucinatory beauty. You are dropped into the deep end of a fully realized, paranoid future without a life vest, forced to piece together the sprawling connections between corporate gods, digital ghosts, and desperate hustlers. It is an atmospheric, melancholic, and ultimately mind-bending experience that will thrill readers who love their science fiction stylish, complex, and dripping with the chrome and grime of a high-tech dystopia.
- Mood
- neon-drenched
- paranoid
- hallucinatory
- melancholic
- Tone
- cynical
- detached
- visionary
- gritty
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- human-machine symbiosis · corporate hegemony · digital ghosts · commodification of identity · technological transcendence
- The writing
- Dense, poetic, and hyper-stylized, packed with technological neologisms and sharp, sensory metaphors.
- The arc
- The journey begins in fragmented, desperate isolation and accelerates toward a transcendent, mind-bending convergence.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave stylish, complex science fiction and love piecing together fragmented narratives in a gritty, high-tech dystopia.
Content notes
- drug use
- violence
- body modification
- kidnapping
About the book
Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy.
Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell who deciphers cyperspace plans, including those devised by Japanese underworld.
Description from Open Library.
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