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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 worldlyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and excitingwhere 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 Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.
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ISBN-13: | 9780553281743 |
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Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/06/1997 |
Series: | Sprawl Trilogy Series , #3 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 320 |
Sales rank: | 40,363 |
Product dimensions: | 4.20(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.84(d) |
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