After finishing Count Zero last week I jumped into Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson’s third and final novel in that Sprawl trilogy, a science fiction series set in a hypertechnological, paranoid, corporate dominated, cyber-dystopia that began with Neuromancer.
Mona Lisa Overdrive ended the trilogy and brought to a close, or mostly a close, the story that began with Case and Mollys adventure in Neuromancer. Molly makes a return and she’s part of this third novel. I’m reviewing, of course, a novel that’s nearly two decades old. I’ve quite a bit of catching up to do, but all in all the Sprawl trilogy is the in total probably the best series I’ve ever read. While none of books match the sheer joy of Neuromancer or capture the near mystical sense of expectation I had reading it, they each shed light on simply a fascinating world that seems, despite all the futuristic technology, to be just around the corner.
Seeing as I wrote out my general criticisms just two days ago with Count Zero I’ll let this stand as is. Read Neuromancer, at the very least!
