We see characters return from the first novel who were not in the second.
Instead, here we find a novelist searching to create a trilogy in the third novel after the probably unexpected success of the first, and it doesn't work. Long-time readers of science fiction and fantasy will be familiar with this "non-trilogy trilogy" phenomenon, and Gibson's talents were lost in his attempt to create one in this final Sprawl novel.īetter attempts typically start as a trilogy conceived of as a trilogy, with related arcs that span all 3 novels, or a series of 3 independent novels that stand on their own, perhaps centered around consistent characters. In the end, I'm left with the conclusion that this was a forced attempt to create a trilogy where none existed before, and certainly where none existed when the first novel was written. or so they think.I loved "Neuromancer" and liked "Count Zero," but "Mona Lisa Overdrive" lacks everything those first two novels had. 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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