Mona Lisa Overdrive

Sprawl

Content Ratings

Mild Romance

Brief romantic and physical relationships are present but handled with Gibson's characteristic restraint and economy of description.

Moderate Themes

Themes include the convergence of criminal and corporate power, the persistence of identity in digital form, and the blurring boundary between human consciousness and artificial constructs.

Mild Violence

Violence occurs in the context of organized crime and corporate intrigue; confrontations and deaths are depicted with the series' matter-of-fact economy rather than graphic detail.

Synopsis

The third Sprawl novel weaves together four storylines involving a young woman sheltered from her criminal past, a simstim star targeted for abduction, a data construct of a deceased hacker, and a teenager raised in the criminal underworld, all converging around a mysterious object and the aloof Maas-Neotek construct. The novel brings Gibson's Sprawl trilogy to a dreamlike, interconnected conclusion. Dense with style and cyberpunk mythology.