William Gibson, Tom De Haven, Bruce Alan Jensen (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating 515 ratings published 1984 4 editions. William Gibson's Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel.

And faces staring as the armoed hover made its way through the streets. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson is an excellent conclusion to the cyberpunk Sprawl Trilogy, and even if there are a couple of aspects in which it falters, on the whole it’s a fascinating and exciting romp through a technologically-dominated world populated by (mostly) interesting characters. Her tax ride from the airport had already shown her decay, whole blocks in ruins, unglazed windows gaping above sidewalks heaped with trash. The apparent lack of planning alone was enough to dizzy her, running so entirely opposite the value her own culture placed on efficient land use. Gomi in the Sprawl was something else: a rich humus, a decay that sprouted prodigies in steel and polymer. The English valued their gomi in its own right, in a way she had only begun to understand they inhabited it. Yet these structures revealed, even to Kumiko, the fabric of time, each wall patched by generation of hands in an ongoing task of restoration. To Kumiko's eyes, the bulk of the city consisted of gomi, of structures the Japanese economy would long ago have devoured in its relentless hunger for space in which to build. London's relationship to gomi was more subtle, more oblique.

Gomi, there, was a resource to be managed, to be collected, carefully plowed under. Thirty-five percent of the landmass of Tokyo was built on gomi, on level tracts reclaimed from the Bay through a century's systematic dumping. 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.“Gomi.

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. 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.

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