![]() ![]() Mitchell's family and romantic background involves creators of, and intelligences that inhabit, large chunks of cyberspace, and the four disparate plotlines steadily come together over the course of this novel, set (I am guessing) in the mid to late 21st century. ![]() The books were released about two years after another, in which Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive were released in 1984, in 1986 and in 1988 respectively. Since Mona looks a lot like Angie, her pimp sells her to a secret organization that has a plastic surgeon alter her looks even further. Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson is the first of its kind: a cyberpunk genre trilogy. ![]() I had hoped to include this third and final review in short order, unfortunately other books got in the way. For those who don’t remember, this began with Neuromancer and Count Zero many months ago. In his third novel, Gibson starts with four disparate threads: 13-year-old Kuniko Yanaka is flown to secluson in London by her powerful Japanese gangster father 30-something vagrant Slick Henry hangs out in an abandoned New Jersey warehouse, building robots while his "landlord" Gentry tries to discern the shape of cyberspace megastar Angela Mitchell tries to recover her equilibrium in Malibu and decide her next career move after undergoing drug detox in Jamaica and 16-year-old (maybe) Cleveland native Mona Lisa is pimped by her boyfriend Eddy in Florida. Mona Lisa Overdrive Welcome back to the BAMA At long last, I’ve come to the end of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy. ![]()
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