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    Title
    Mona Lisa Overdrive
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) William Gibson
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 320
    Width: 130 mm
    Height: 197 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 220 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780006480440
    ISBN 10: 0006480446
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: FIC028000
    Dewey: 813.54
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F2.2
    BISAC category code: FIC009000
    Publisher
    HarperCollins Publishers
    Imprint name
    HarperVoyager
    Publication date
    27 November 1995
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Review text
    Another brilliant, gritty, densely textured novel from the author of Neuromancer (paperback, 1984; Hugo, Nebula, P.K. Dick awards) and Count Zero (1986). From elements of the previous novels, Gibson spins three story lines, knitting them together about 15 years after the close of Count Zero. Angle Mitchell, whose scientist father customized her brain to link directly (if unwillingly) to the consensual hallucination of cyberspace, is now the Sense/Net star. Her lover, Bobby Newmark, Count Zero, has recently disappeared. Jacked into a massive biochip, his unconscious, dying body is brought to the Factory, an abandoned industrial site located on toxic landfill in New Jersey. There, Gentry, a seeker obsessed with the shape of cyberspace (which parallels Bobby's search for the truth of When It Changed - the moment when cyberspace became aware of itself, generating independent Als within the matrix), recognizes the biochip as a key to his quest. Molly, the augmented mercenary of Neuromancer, involved in a plot to kidnap Angle, brings her together with Mona, a young junkie and Angle look-alike, and then to the Factory - where. in an uncharacteristically fantastic sequence, Angle joins Bobby in the synthetic reality of cyberspace (and we receive hints of a truly innovative First Contact). As usual with Gibson, the point here is not so much the plot as the future in which it unfolds - and the remarkably accomplished prose with which he reveals it. This one probably won't win over any new fans, but the many extant will be delighted. (Kirkus Reviews)
    Biographical note
    William Gibson was born in the United States in 1948. In 1972 he moved to Vancouver, Canada, after four years spent in Toronto. He is married with two children.
    Main description
    Reissue. **Also appeared in September Buyer's Notes**