- ISBN13: 9780553281743
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The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe. HC: Bantam.Amazon.com Review
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The technoworld that Gibson creates is very sharp, very precise and very strange. What do all this people want and why? The cyberspace sequences are totally unreal. I finished the book without figuring out what the hell had happened
Rating: 2 / 5
Read the other two first. I find this series to be the best of his stuff, but you need to be into it. Gibson, like most of his Sci-Fi contemporaries, is an acquired taste. Iduro is also very good, and more accessible.
Rating: 4 / 5
One that definitely demonstrates why Gibson is considered the Father of Cyberpunk and is so well-written and exciting that it rivals the more traditional sci-fi and space operas that most of us love, like: “Stranger in a Strange Land”, “Childhood’s End”, “Rendezvous with Rama”, “2001″, “I,Robot”, “Foundation”, “Ringworld”, “Advent of the Corps”, and many more.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dark, mysterious and visionary, this work takes you to the extremes of imagination and intrigue.
Pop references merge with sci-fi thrills to produce a riveting joyride of a book.
One must hang on tight to the thoughts of William Gibson, for they are at the truly cutting edge.
Powerful fiction!
Rating: 5 / 5
Compared to almost every other book around, this is a wonderful read. Compared to Neuromancer, however, it’s a bit of a letdown.
It’s funny. The writing itself is better in this book. The characters are more rounded and Gibson is a lot more assured when it comes to pace and descripions. But as technically brilliant he’s become, he wrote a check with the first novel that the next two sequels couldn’t cash. Mona Lisa Overdrive lacks a certain amount of passion and though he was something of a cypher, it doesn’t have a character as powerful as Case. Even Molly, who makes a reappearance here, came across as a shadow of her previous self.
Still, if you like Neuromancer and Count Zero, this is a pretty good conclusion to the trilogy.
Rating: 3 / 5