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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel "Neuromancer," has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . ."The Mona Lisa Overdrive," Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. 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. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace "without" a computer. 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 . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think. "From the Paperback edition."
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Mona Lisa Overdrive, Peter Cuijpers, William Gibson
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- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Subtitle
- Een cyberpunk-thriller
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Peter Cuijpers, William Gibson
- Publisher
- Meulenhoff
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN10
- 9029040173
- ISBN13
- 9789029040174
- Series
- Sprawl
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Classics, Science Fantasy, Gifts for men, Dystopia, Cyberpunk, Cyberspace
- First published
- 1986
- Original title
- Count Zero
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel "Neuromancer," has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . ."The Mona Lisa Overdrive," Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. 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. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace "without" a computer. 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 . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think. "From the Paperback edition."