In fact he's having fun taking his time, defying conventions of plot development. But you're never really wasting your time watching a genius at play, even when he drops the ball.įor most of the book, it seems as if Gibson is steadfastly and infuriatingly avoiding establishing a plot. In all honesty it doesn't fully work, and Mona Lisa Overdrive remains Gibson's least artistically successful story to date.
Yet it's a testament to Gibson's still fecund talents that much of its entertainment value lies in wanting to solve it. The resulting story is a hell of a mess, a convoluted literary Rubik's Cube whose sides stubbornly refuse to match up no matter how much you play with it. So he sets about here trying to push his own envelopes and cut his own edges. or so they think.A direct sequel to Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive shows William Gibson perhaps a bit too self-conscious of his stature as a leading SF superstar from whom great things are now routinely expected. 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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